Illustration: On a winter morning outside a home in northern Japan, a resident lifts yesterday’s damp hand towel from an outdoor rail and discovers it has frozen rigid. It projects horizontally from their mittened hand like a small board, startling a child beside them.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

零れい下か

reika

below zero

Used with temperatures. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

寒暖計かんだんけいは零下れいかに下さがった。
The thermometer went down below zero.
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温度計おんどけいは零下れいか三度さんどを示しめしている。
The thermometer reads three degrees below zero.
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昨日きのうは気温きおんが零下れいか５度どに下さがった。
The temperature fell five degrees centigrade below zero yesterday.
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Kanji in 零下

零zero; spillOnレイKunぜろ・こぼす・こぼれる
下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・もと

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