Illustration: In a Japanese elementary school science room, a child stretches both arms around a large physical globe, trying to embrace the broad connected landmass of Europe and Asia.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大たい陸りく

tairiku

continent

Example sentences

  1. アフリカは大陸たいりくであるが、グリーンランドはそうではない。

    Africa is a continent; Greenland is not.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日本海にほんかいは日本にっぽんとアジア大陸たいりくを隔へだてている。

    The Japan Sea separates Japan from the Asian Continent.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 地球上ちきゅうじょうには７つの大陸たいりくがある。

    There are seven continents on the earth.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 大陸

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 陸land; sixOnリク・ロクKunおか

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