Illustration: On the floor of a small apartment, a child holds a wide cardboard tube horizontally just above a low table. The near opening clearly reveals its thin circular wall and hollow interior.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

筒つつ

tsutsu

tube, cylinder

Example sentences

  1. 形状けいじょうは筒つつ型がたの物ものが多おおい。

    They are usually cylinder-shaped.

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

  2. 形状けいじょうは筒つつ型がたや桶型おけがた、壺型つぼがたなど。

    They look like cylinders, wooden buckets, or pots in shape.

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

  3. 飲のみ口ぐちが狭せまく茶ちゃが冷さめにくい筒つつ茶碗ちゃわんは主おもに冬向ふゆむき。

    Cylindrical tea bowls have narrow openings that keep the tea from cooling quickly, so they are mainly used in winter.

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

Kanji in 筒

  • 筒cylinder; pipeOnトウKunつつ

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