Illustration: From behind a secure fence beside a suburban Japanese railway, a child crouches to examine the track while a parent stands nearby. Two steel rails run across regularly spaced sleepers embedded in coarse ballast, continuing beneath a slowly passing local train.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

線せん路ろ

senro

railway track, railway line

Example sentences

  1. ポーターはしばしば線路せんろを歩あるいて渡わたらなければならない。

    Porters often have to walk across the tracks.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 鉄道てつどうの線路せんろを歩あるくのは危険きけんだ。

    It’s dangerous to walk on railway lines.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 線路せんろの上うえに鉄片てっぺんがあったために列車れっしゃは脱線だっせんした。

    The train was derailed by a piece of iron on the track.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 線路

  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ
  • 路path; routeOnロ・ルKunみち

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