Illustration: Between closely spaced houses in an older Japanese neighborhood, a narrow paved alley bends past kitchen windows, drainpipes and carefully arranged flowerpots. A resident carrying a laundry basket meets a neighbor walking a bicycle, and both turn sideways to let each other pass.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

路ろ地じ

roji

alley, lane

Example sentences

この路地ろじは通とおり抜ぬけできません。
This is a dead-end alley.
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その町まちにはたくさんの狭せまい路地ろじがある。
The town has many narrow lanes.
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市しの北きたのはずれは路地ろじの迷路めいろである。
The northernmost part of the city is a maze of alleys.
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Kanji in 路地

路path; routeOnロ・ルKunみち
地ground; earthOnチ・ジ

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