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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

対たい称しょう

taishou

symmetry

Example sentences

  1. 知しっていたかね、フランス語ごでは「対称たいしょう」と「非対称ひたいしょう」で発音はつおんの区別くべつが付つかないそうだ。

    Did you know that, in French, one doesn’t hear the difference between "the symmetry" and "the asymmetry"?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 横広よこひろがりな形かたちで、飾かざりや人形にんぎょうなどはおおむね左右さゆう対称たいしょうな配置はいちとなっている。

    The decoration extends transversally with ornaments and dolls which are placed in a largely symmetrical arrangement.

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

  3. 房ふさに特徴とくちょうがあり、親珠おやだまから出でる房ふさの形かたちが対称たいしょうでは無ない。

    Tassels have a distinctive feature since tassels attached to Oyadama are not symmetrical.

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

Kanji in 対称

  • 対vis-a-vis; oppositeOnタイ・ツイKunあいて・こたえる・そろい
  • 称appellation; praiseOnショウKunたたえる・となえる・あげる

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