Illustration: A stone path through a quiet neighborhood shrine passes beneath a freestanding wooden torii. Its two upright posts, broad upper lintel and lower horizontal crosspiece are fully visible, with the shrine building farther along the same path.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

鳥とり居い

torii

Shinto shrine gate

Example sentences

  1. 鳥居とりいと言いうと、階段かいだんを上あがったところにあった赤あかいオブジェ？

    By 'Torii' you mean that red objet d’art at the top of the steps?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 鳥居とりいは大おおきいです。

    The shrine gate is huge.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 約やく1万基まんきの鳥居とりいがある。

    There are 10,000 torii in this shrine.

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

Kanji in 鳥居

  • 鳥bird; chickenOnチョウKunとり
  • 居reside; existOnキョ・コKunいる・おる

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