Illustration: From a high coastal lookout, a visitor sees a long curved succession of islands extending across the sea. Each island has its own shoreline and a clear water gap before the next; the nearest carries a small fishing settlement, while distant islands diminish along the same arc.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

列れっ島とう

rettou

chain of islands

Example sentences

  1. 日本にほん列島れっとうは酷暑こくしょに苛さいなまれている。

    The Japanese archipelago is struck by a terrible heat wave.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日本にっぽん列島れっとうおよび朝鮮半島ちょうせんはんとうに分布ぶんぷする。

    It is distributed throughout the Japanese islands and the Korean Peninsula.

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

  3. この過程かていで、台湾たいわんや朝鮮ちょうせんから日本にっぽん列島れっとうへの他ほかの民族みんぞくの流入りゅうにゅうもおこった。

    During this time, other races came into the Japanese archipelago from Taiwan and Korea.

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

Kanji in 列島

  • 列file; rowOnレツ・レ
  • 島islandOnトウKunしま

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