Illustration: At an elementary school craft table, a child carefully aligns a wooden ruler with the end of a narrow strip of cardboard. The ruler has clearly spaced graduation marks without numerals, and the child pins it flat with one hand while checking the strip's far endpoint with the other.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

物もの差さし

monosashi

ruler, measuring stick

Example sentences

  1. ものさしでその棒ぼうの長ながさを測はかりなさい。

    Measure the length of the stick with a ruler.

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  2. 物差ものさしを使つかって線せんを引ひきなさい。

    Draw a line with a ruler.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. なお、「鯨尺くじらじゃく」という名前なまえは、仕立したてに使つかう物ものさしをしなやかな鯨くじらひげで作つくったことによる。

    The name 'kujira-jaku' was derived from the fact that the ruler used for tailoring cloth was made of flexible baleen.

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

Kanji in 物差

  • 物thing; objectOnブツ・モツKunもの・もの-
  • 差distinction; differenceOnサKunさす・さし

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