Illustration: In a Japanese animal care room, a keeper measures a guinea pig standing on a low examination mat. A horizontal measuring board runs beside the animal, with one sliding stop aligned at its nose and the other at its rump; simple tick marks show the scale.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

体たい長ちょう

taichou

body length

Used mainly for animals. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 体長たいちょう12cm前後ぜんごで成熟期せいじゅくきをむかえる。

    They enter the period of maturity when they grow to about twelve centimeters in length.

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

  2. 体長たいちょうは通常つうじょう20-30cmほどで、まれに40cmに達たっするものもいる。

    The body length of Ise ebi is usually twenty to thirty centimeters, and it sometimes reaches forty centimeters.

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

  3. ヘビのようだが、直径ちょっけい15センチ、体長たいちょう1メートルくらいで、太ふとさの割わりに短みじかい。

    It looks like a snake, having a diameter of about 15cm and a length of about 1m, and it is short for its thickness.

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

Kanji in 体長

  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち
  • 長long; leaderOnチョウKunながい・おさ

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