Illustration: In the entrance of a family home, shoes stand in a neat row along the raised wooden step, each pair facing the same direction. The sequence runs from large adult shoes through smaller children’s shoes to tiny toddler sandals.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

並ならび

narabi

row, arrangement, order

Example sentences

  1. 塔頭たっちゅうの並ならびを屋敷街やしきがいに擬ぎしている。

    The row of sub-temples was made to look like a row of period dwellings in town.

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

  2. 積つみ重かさねられたトランプカードの並ならびの順番じゅんばんをしっかりと覚おぼえることは、決けっして簡単かんたんなことではないが、しかしできないことでもない。

    Memorizing the order of a deck of playing cards is definitely not easy, but it’s not impossible.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そのため見みかけの竹管たけかんの長ながさと音程おんていの並ならびは一致いっちしない。

    For that reason, the apparent lengths of the bamboo tubes do not match the order of their pitches.

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

Kanji in 並

  • 並row; andOnヘイ・ホウKunなみ・なみ・ならべる

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