Illustration: In a community center’s indoor garden, a caretaker checks the narrow transparent water-level tube attached to a large self-watering planter. Most of the reservoir is concealed inside the pot, but the tube’s small float rests close to the bottom of its unnumbered scale.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

指し標ひょう

shihyou

indicator, index

Example sentences

世論調査よろんちょうさは政府せいふの信用度しんようどの指標しひょうだ。
Public opinion polls are barometers of confidence in the government.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
指標しひょうは前月比ぜんげつひ４％上昇じょうしょうした。
The index rose 4% from the preceding month.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
弦つるの重おもさは弦つるの太ふとさの指標しひょう。
The weight of the string gives an indication of the thickness of the string.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 指標

指finger; pointOnシKunゆび・さす
標signpost; sealOnヒョウKunしるべ・しるし

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