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JLPT N4
新幹線

JLPT N4 · N2 · Vocabulary

新幹線 — “bullet train, Shinkansen”

新幹線 (read しんかんせん) means bullet train, Shinkansen. It appears on the JLPT N4 and N2 vocabulary list and is a noun.

Reading

しんかんせん

Meaning

bullet train, Shinkansen

新幹線 in a sentence

新しん幹線かんせんで大阪おおさかへ行きいきました。

I went to Osaka by bullet train.

The kanji in 新幹線

新new
幹trunk; main part
線line

Words that share a kanji with 新幹線

新しいあたらしい— new
新聞しんぶん— newspaper
新聞社しんぶんしゃ— newspaper company
新たあらた— new, fresh
新鮮しんせん— fresh
線せん— line (train/rail)
地平線ちへいせん— the horizon
下線かせん— underline, underscore

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