Illustration: In a small furniture workshop, a craftsperson places a newly finished miniature chair beside the customer’s reference model. The two chairs have the same curved back, seat shape, and overall height, but the reference has three legs while the finished chair clearly has four.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

相そう違い

soui

difference, discrepancy

Example sentences

  1. 両者りょうしゃの間まには、あったとしても、相違そういはごくわずかである。

    There is little, if any, difference between the two.

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  2. それらの間まには表面的ひょうめんてきな相違そういはない。

    There is no surface difference between them.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 我々われわれにはわずかな意見いけんの相違そういがあった。

    We had a slight difference of opinion.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 相違

  • 相inter-; mutualOnソウ・ショウKunあい-
  • 違difference; differOnイKunちがう・ちがい・ちがえる

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