Illustration: On the floor of a Japanese living room, a child measures a tiny clay rice ball with a ruler while an adult kneels nearby. The ruler has evenly spaced long ticks, each interval subdivided into ten smaller divisions.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

センチメートル

senchimeetoru

centimeter

Example sentences

  1. 一いちメートルは百ひゃくセンチメートルです。

    A metre is 100 centimetres.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. センチメートルは長ながさの単位たんいだ。

    A centimeter is a unit of length.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. それは体長たいちょうが35センチメートルほどのトカゲのようなもので、頭あたまには1本ぽんの角つのがあった。

    It was like a lizard about 35 centimeters long, with a single horn on its head.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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