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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

手て数かず

tekazu

number of moves

Used for moves in games such as shogi. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 手数てかずは十数手詰じゅうすうてづめで、実戦的じっせんてきな手筋てすじを多おおく用もちいており、江戸中期えどちゅうきに盛さかんになった華麗かれいな手筋てすじを用もちいるものとは趣おもむきが異ことなる。

    Each exercise is designed to be completed in about a dozen practical and tactical moves, and his shogi therefore was quite different from the shogi style using fancy moves that became popular in the middle of the Edo period.

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

  2. この詰つめ将棋しょうぎは手数てかずが少すくない。

    This shogi puzzle takes only a few moves.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. もっと少すくない手数てかずで詰つませられますか？

    Can you checkmate in fewer moves?

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 手数

  • 手handOnシュ・ズKunて・て-・た-
  • 数number; strengthOnスウ・ス・サクKunかず・かぞえる・しばしば

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