Illustration: Across a broad Japanese farming valley, a long advancing bank of low clouds divides clear sunlit fields from a continuous curtain of rain. Near the cloud edge, roadside grasses bend sharply with a fresh gust while trees farther into the sunny area remain comparatively still.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

前ぜん線せん

zensen

weather front

Example sentences

  1. これが最初さいしょの梅雨つゆ前線ぜんせんである。

    This is the baiu front in its initial stage.

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

  2. この前線ぜんせん付近ふきんでは雨あめが降ふり続つづくが、長雨ながあめの期間きかんは各地域かくちいきで1か月げつ~2か月げつにもなる。

    It rains continuously in the vicinity of this front and the period for continual rain lasts for one to two months in each district.

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

  3. しかし、前線ぜんせんの南北なんぼくの空気くうきを構成こうせいする気団きだんは同おなじである。

    However, the air masses which compose air in the south and north of the front are the same.

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

Kanji in 前線

  • 前in front; beforeOnゼンKunまえ
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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