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線 kanji
line, track
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
セン
Kun readings
すじ
Variant forms
綫Words with 線
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —線引きdelineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler
- —数直線number line (e.g. on a graph); real number line
- —双線形bilinear
- —いい線(on the) right track; (on the) right lines
- —線条痕rifling marks on a fired bullet
- —上り線up line; in-bound line
- —放線菌actinomycete; actinomycetes; ray fungus
- —線虫類nematodes
- —線形虫nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)
- —防衛線line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)
- —饋電線feeder
- —粒子線particle beam
- —Ｘ光線X-ray
- —世界線world line; parallel universe (in fiction); parallel world; alternative reality
- —伸開線involute
- —縮閉線evolute
- —蛇皮線sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen
- —割線法secant method
- —隠れ線hidden line (in a technical drawing)
- —回線群trunk group