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円盤

円盤

Japanese

Kanji in this term
えん
Grade: 1
ばん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

円盤 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 圓盤, hiragana えんばん, romaji enban)

  1. disc
    • 1933, 寺田寅彦, 自然界の縞模様:
      ガラスなどの円盤 (えんばん)中央 (ちゅうおう)をたたくと、それがある整数 (せいすう)だけのほぼ同大 (どうだい)扇形 (おうぎがた) ()れる。
      Garasu nado no enban no chūō o tataku to, sore ga aru seisū dake no hobo dōdai no ōgigata ni wareru.
      When you hit the center of a disc of something like glass, it will break into a regular number of fan-shaped pieces of about the same size.