Illustration: Off a quiet Japanese fishing coast, a whale surfaces beside a small whale-watching boat, its broad back dwarfing the passengers. Its head and blowhole break the water as a plume of spray rises, while its horizontal tail flukes remain visible farther behind.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

クジラ

kujira

whale

Example sentences

  1. クジラは魚さかなだと思おもわれていた。

    It was believed that whales were fish.

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  2. 生いきているクジラを見みたことがある。

    I have once seen a live whale.

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  3. あれって、クジラ？

    Is that a whale?

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