Illustration: Outside a small neighborhood bakery in Japan, customers wait in a clear single-file line leading to the open entrance. Each person stands behind the next with a modest gap, all facing toward the counter visible inside.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

列れつ

retsu

line, row, queue

Example sentences

この数字すうじの列れつを合計ごうけいしなさい。
Add up this column of figures.
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彼女かのじょが列れつの先頭せんとうです。
She is first in line.
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彼かれはその列れつの中なかにいた。
He was in the queue.
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Kanji in 列

列file; rowOnレツ・レ

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