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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
- —入線arrival (of a train) at the platform (of the starting station); entering a track (at the starting station); crossing the finish line; passing the post
- —線素line element
- —三線shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
- —新線new railway line
- —描線(drawn) line; line in a drawing
- —青線blue line; area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956); non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)
- —跨線across the tracks (of a bridge, etc.); over the tracks
- —測線measuring line (surveying)
- —陽線white candlestick (in a candlestick chart); bullish candlestick
- —陰線red candlestick (in a candlestick chart); bearish candlestick; terminator (boundary between the areas of light and shadow on an object)
- —線幅line width
- —心線core wire; conductor
- —同線the said line; the same line
- —抜線unplugging (a cable, device, etc.); disconnecting; trim line (in vehicle body manufacturing)
- —雨線rainband
- —射線line of fire (of a gun)
- —線図diagram; chart
- —延線extension of a line
- —中線median; midline
- —素線wire strand (esp. in a wire rope); wire thread