Illustration: At a neighborhood stationery shop, a child lays exactly three long, unsharpened pencils parallel on the counter, leaving clear space between them. Their full lengths and separate tips are visible.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

三さん本ぼん

sanbon

three long or thin things

Counts bottles, pencils and other long objects. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. コーラ３本ぼん買かってきてくれ。

    Go and buy three bottles of coke.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムは庭にわにりんごの木きを3本ぼん植うえた。

    Tom planted three apple trees in his yard.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. あなたは３本ぼんのペンを持もっています。

    You have three pens.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 三本

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ
  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと

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