Illustration: In a Japanese fisheries laboratory, two technicians measure an unexpectedly long oarfish resting straight in a shallow examination trough. One holds the beginning of a measuring tape exactly at the tip of its snout; the other reaches the farthest tip of its tail.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

全ぜん長ちょう

zenchou

total length

Example sentences

  1. この川かわは全長ぜんちょう200キロです。

    This river is two hundred kilometers long.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 成魚せいぎょは全長ぜんちょう1m、最大さいだいで1.3mほどになる。

    The adult fish is 1 m in length, the maximum being about 1.3 m.

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

  3. 水攻みずぜめ堤防ていぼうは全長ぜんちょう7.2km、高たかさ7mに及およんだ。

    The bank for inundation tactics was 7.2km long and seven meters high.

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

Kanji in 全長

  • 全whole; entireOnゼンKunまったく・すべて
  • 長long; leaderOnチョウKunながい・おさ

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