Illustration: From a pedestrian overpass in a Japanese suburb, two same-direction traffic lanes are clearly visible between the curb and a planted central divider. A dashed line separates them, and each contains its own orderly line of vehicles.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

車しゃ線せん

shasen

traffic lane

Example sentences

  1. 一番右側いちばんみぎがわの車線しゃせんは現在工事中げんざいこうじちゅうである。

    The rightmost lane is now under construction.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムは車線しゃせん変更へんこうの前まえにウインカーを出ださなかった。

    Tom didn’t signal before changing lanes.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 車道しゃどうは1車線しゃせんのみで東向ひがしむきの一方通行いっぽうつうこうであり休日きゅうじつは歩行者天国ほこうしゃてんごくとなる。

    It is a one-lane road, car traffic allowed only in the eastward direction, and the street is turned into a pedestrians' paradise on holidays.

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

Kanji in 車線

  • 車carOnシャKunくるま
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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