Illustration: After rain, small mushrooms stand here and there across the lawn of a Japanese apartment courtyard. Each mushroom or tiny pair is separated from the next by a substantial patch of grass; none forms a continuous line or crowded bed.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

点てん々てん

tenten

here and there, scattered about

Example sentences

  1. 池いけに落おち葉ばが点々てんてんと浮うかんでいた。

    The pond was dotted with fallen leaves.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 週末しゅうまつなどは深夜しんやに伊吹山いぶきやまを見みると、登山道とざんどうを行いく登山者とざんしゃの懐中電灯かいちゅうでんとうの列れつが点々てんてんと見みられることがある。

    On weekends, when you look at Mt. Ibuki in the middle of the night, you can see a line of flashlights climbers on the trail have.

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

  3. 道みちに水みずたまりが点々てんてんとできていました。

    Puddles had formed here and there along the road.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 点々

  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる

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