Illustration: In a compact Japanese apartment, two siblings share one long homework desk divided down the middle by a freestanding wooden panel. Each side has its own lamp, pencil cup, and school materials, with the panel clearly separating the two working spaces.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

仕し切きり

shikiri

partition, divider

Example sentences

  1. したがってこの頃ころの土間どまにはまだ仕切しきりがなかった。

    Accordingly, there were no divided sections in the doma at that time.

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

  2. マチを低ひくく、中なか仕切しきりを高たかくすることで、動うごきやすい構造こうぞうになっている。

    For ease of movement the gusset is made lower, and a divider inside is made correspondingly higher.

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

  3. 籠中央かごちゅうおうに縦たてに仕切しきりをもうけ、一方いっぽうに2羽わずつ4羽わの鵜うをいれる。

    A dividing board is put in the center of the basket and two cormorants each, a total of 4 cormorants, are put in.

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

Kanji in 仕切

  • 仕attend; doingOnシ・ジKunつかえる
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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