Illustration: A small passenger launch travels briskly across a sheltered Japanese bay, leaving a long, sharply defined wake behind its stern. The pilot holds a steady course while the speedometer needle stands high on its ring of unnumbered ticks.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

速そく力りょく

sokuryoku

speed

Often used for the speed of a vessel. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

速力そくりょく18ノット。
The ship can make 18 knots.
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船ふねは港みなとに近ちかづくと速力そくりょくを落おとした。
The ship slowed down as it approached the port.
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この船ふねは一定いっていの速力そくりょくで進すすんでいる。
This ship is moving at a steady speed.
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Kanji in 速力

速quick; fastOnソクKunはやい・はや-・はやめる
力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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