Illustration: At a children's science activity in a community room, two children investigate the properties of the same wooden block. One places it on a simple balance opposite small metal weights, treating its heaviness as something to examine.

さ

-ness

Attach it to an adjective stem to make a noun, as in 高さ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

高たかさが36メートル。
Its height is thirty-six meters.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
うだるような暑あつさだ。
It’s boiling hot.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
高たかさ3.6メートル。
It is 3.6m tall.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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