Illustration: At a suburban station, a uniformed conductor leans from the side window of the train's rear cab, checking the length of the platform before departure. One white-gloved hand points along the closed passenger doors, while the other remains near the cab's door-control panel.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

車しゃ掌しょう

shashou

train conductor

Example sentences

  1. 車掌しゃしょうさん。次つぎの町まちってどこですか？

    Say, Conductor! What’s the next town?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 大人おとなになったら、車掌しゃしょうになりたい。

    When I grow up, I want to be a train conductor.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 全線ぜんせんでワンマン運転うんてんを実施じっししているが、一部列車いちぶれっしゃには車掌しゃしょうが乗務じょうむすることもある。

    All trains run with only a driver, although some occasionally have a conductor as well.

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

Kanji in 車掌

  • 車carOnシャKunくるま
  • 掌palm of hand; ruleOnショウKunてのひら・たなごころ

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