Illustration: In a Japanese primary-school craft room, a child lifts a wooden cube beside a flat square cut from paper. The cube is turned so its top and two sides are clearly visible, and the child’s fingers wrap around its depth.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

立りっ体たい

rittai

three-dimensional object

Example sentences

  1. 阿弥陀如来あみだにょらいと25体たいの菩薩ぼさつが、亡者もうじゃを西方極楽浄土せいほうごくらくじょうどへ導みちびくさまを表現ひょうげんしたもので、この種しゅの像ぞうは絵画作品かいがさくひんとしては多数作たすうつくられているが、等身大とうしんだいの立体りったい像ぞうで表あらわしたものは珍めずらしい。

    Amida Nyorai and the 25 bodhisattvas are shown as if guiding a soul to the Western Pure Land Paradise; a scene which is often depicted in painting but is rarely represented using life sized three-dimensional statues.

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

  2. 表面積ひょうめんせきが同おなじ立体りったいの中なかで、体積たいせきが最もっとも大おおきいのは球きゅうである。

    Of all three-dimensional objects with the same surface area, a sphere has the greatest volume.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 紙かみを折おって、小ちいさな立体りったいを作つくった。

    I folded paper to make a small three-dimensional shape.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 立体

  • 立stand; riseOnリツ・リュウ・リットルKunたつ・たち-・たてる
  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち

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