Illustration: At the entrance of a small Japanese workshop, a craftsperson holds a newly finished rectangular metal plate against the wall beside the door. The plate has rounded corners, a shallow raised border, and a mounting hole at each corner; its face is still blank.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

プレート

pureeto

plate, sign plate

Example sentences

  1. この呼よび方かたはナンバープレートの色いろが事業用車じぎょうようしゃのそれに対たいして白地緑文字しろじみどりもじであることに由来ゆらいする。

    This name comes from the fact that license plates of these types of taxis are painted green against a white background, while those of legal taxis are different.

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

  2. 正規せいきに登録とうろくされた乗用車じょうようしゃの車台番号しゃだいばんごうのものと異ことなる偽造ぎぞうナンバープレートを取とり付つけたものを「天てんぷらナンバー」という。

    When a car carries a forged car registration plate stating a wrong number instead of the undercarriage number which has been registered for the vehicle, it is called 'tempura number.'

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

  3. 夜間やかんの場合ばあいはプレートが見みづらいことから、プレートの代かわりに車上しゃじょうの社名表示灯しゃめいひょうじとうが点灯てんとうしているか否いなかで区別くべつできる地域ちいきもある。

    Because it is harder to see the sign at night, taxis in some areas light up the company logo indicating lamp on the top of the taxi, instead of showing the sign, to show the taxi is available, meaning if the company logo indicating lamp is off, the taxi is occupied.

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

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