Illustration: At dusk outside an apartment bicycle shelter, a parent tests a flashing rear bicycle lamp while slowly rolling the bicycle past a wet metal railing. The lamp’s repeated pulses leave a succession of separated bright reflections along the damp rail, with dark intervals between them.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

点てん滅めつ

tenmetsu

to flash, to blink

Example sentences

  1. 文字もじを点滅てんめつさせる

    make characters flash

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 強盗ごうとうなど緊急時きんきゅうじには、赤色あかいろに点滅てんめつさせることができる。

    The company logo indicating lamp can blink in red in case of emergency such as robbery.

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

  3. LEDの信号しんごうが点滅てんめつすると、利用可能りようかのうになります。

    It will be ready to use when the LED indicator starts flashing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 点滅

  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる
  • 滅destroy; ruinOnメツKunほろびる・ほろぶ・ほろぼす

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