Illustration: In a Japanese primary-school science room, a child stretches a thin cord snugly around a classroom globe at its exact equator. The globe’s polar axle and recognizable continents remain clearly visible, showing that the cord divides Earth into equal northern and southern halves.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

赤せき道どう

sekidou

equator

Example sentences

その船ふねは昨日きのう赤道せきどうを越こえた。
That ship crossed the equator yesterday.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
赤道せきどうは地球ちきゅうを２つの半球はんきゅうに分わける。
The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
地球ちきゅうは赤道せきどうに関かんして対称たいしょうではない。
The earth is not symmetrical about the equator.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 赤道

赤redOnセキ・シャクKunあか・あか-・あかい
道road-way; streetOnドウ・トウKunみち・いう

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store