Illustration: At a home craft table, a child measures a remarkably tiny origami box against a clear metric ruler. The ruler has no numerals or letters, only evenly spaced long centimeter ticks with ten smaller millimeter intervals between them.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

センチ

senchi

centimeter

This is short for センチメートル. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. １メートルは１００センチである。

    A metre is 100 centimetres.

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  2. 彼かれは今年ことし３センチ背せが伸のびた。

    He has grown three centimeters this year.

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  3. 私わたしはほとんど１８０センチです。

    I am almost 180 centimeters tall.

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