Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese home, a child proudly lifts an unfolded sheet of origami paper flat toward a grandparent. Its four equal edges and four right-angled corners are fully visible. Several completed paper cranes sit on the table, but this sheet remains untouched.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

正せい方ほう形けい

seihoukei

square

Example sentences

  1. 正方形せいほうけいは４つの同おなじ長ながさの辺へんをもつ。

    A square has four equal sides.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは黒板こくばんに正方形せいほうけいを二ふたつ書かいた。

    He drew two squares on the blackboard.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちは正方形せいほうけいのテーブルを持もっています。

    We have a square table.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 正方形

  • 正correct; justiceOnセイ・ショウKunただしい・ただす・まさ
  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた
  • 形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり

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