Illustration: At a worktable beside a suburban railway station window, a hobbyist fits a tiny platform roof onto a detailed miniature of that very station. Through the window, the full-sized platform has the same sloping roof, stairway, and unusually bent drainpipe.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

模も型けい

mokei

physical model, miniature

Example sentences

  1. 父ちちは私わたしに船ふねの模型もけいを作つくってくれた。

    Father made me a model of a ship.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしは模型もけいの飛行機ひこうきを作つくった。

    I made a model plane.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 模型もけいの宇宙船うちゅうせんを作つくるのは面白おもしろい。

    Making model spaceships is interesting.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 模型

  • 模imitation; copyOnモ・ボ
  • 型mould; typeOnケイKunかた

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