Illustration: At a small regional airfield, a mechanic stands between a parked propeller airplane and a helicopter resting on its skids. The airplane’s wings and tail are fully visible; the helicopter’s cabin and broad rotor blades are equally recognizable.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

航こう空くう機き

koukuuki

aircraft

Includes planes and helicopters. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. その航空機こうくうきには新技術しんぎじゅつが適用てきようされている。

    That plane makes use of new technology.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 航空機こうくうきの発達はったつのおかげで、世界せかいはずっと狭せまくなった。

    Thanks to the development of aircraft, the world has become much smaller.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 新幹線しんかんせんでは、航空機こうくうきや船舶せんぱくと異ことなり、通常つうじょうの運行うんこうでは乗客名簿じょうきゃくめいぼなどは整備せいびされない。

    Contrary to airplanes and ships, no passenger list is available for Shinkansen.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 航空機

  • 航navigate; sailOnコウ
  • 空empty; skyOnクウKunそら・あく・あき
  • 機loom; mechanismOnキKunはた

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