Illustration: In a neighborhood bicycle shop, the owner and nearby residents have set up a relief kitchen after a storm. The owner's repair apron hangs beside his tools while he ladles soup from a stockpot purchased from the shop's cash tin.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

民みん間かん

minkan

private, non-governmental

Example sentences

  1. 合衆国がっしゅうこくでは２億おく１６００万丁まんちょうもの鉄砲類てっぽうるいが、民間みんかんの手てにあるという。

    In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 今度こんどの税金ぜいきんは全すべての民間みんかん企業きぎょうに適用てきようされる。

    This tax is applied to all private-sector enterprises.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 民間みんかん機きが軍事的領域ぐんじてきりょういきを侵犯しんぱんしたとのことです。

    A commercial airplane allegedly violated military airspace.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 民間

  • 民people; nationOnミンKunたみ
  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store