Illustration: In a community garden, a gardener kneels beside a long rectangular planting bed and presses a short wooden divider across its full width. Two matching dividers already separate the continuous soil into distinct sections, while the remaining length is still uninterrupted.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

区く切ぎる

kugiru

to divide, to mark off

Example sentences

  1. グラウンドは白線はくせんで３つに区切くぎられている。

    The playground is divided into three areas by white lines.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 東西約とうざいやく37メートルあり、内部ないぶは18室しつに区切くぎられている。

    With a length of approx. 37 meters in the east-west direction, the building was partitioned into 18 rooms.

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

  3. 通説つうせつでは、全ぜん173段だんに区切くぎられている。

    The common accepted theory suggests that this literary work consists of 173 chapters in total.

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

Kanji in 区切

  • 区ward; districtOnク・オウ・コウ
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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