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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

東とう西ざい

touzai

east and west

Example sentences

  1. バルカン山脈さんみゃくはブルガリアの中央ちゅうおうを東西とうざいに走はしる山脈さんみゃく。

    The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 出入口でいりぐちは東西とうざい双方そうほうにある。

    It has two entrances/exits: one on the east side and the other on the west.

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

  3. エレベーターは東西とうざい共ともにある。

    There are elevators on both the east and west sides.

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

Kanji in 東西

  • 東eastOnトウKunひがし
  • 西west; SpainOnセイ・サイ・スKunにし

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