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上空
JLPT 1 - Kana Reading
- じょうくう
- Romaji
- jōkū
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air
- Example sentence
- 暖かい軽い空気は山越えすると上空に上昇し、地上には下りてこないことなど、風は地形によって変わります。 When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
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Examples of 上空, じょうくう in a sentence
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暖かい軽い空気は山越えすると上空に上昇し、地上には下りてこないことなど、風は地形によって変わります。
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
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A plane is flying above the city.
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Even the upper atmosphere is polluted.
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We had a glimpse of the lake as we flew over it.
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The jet made a whining sound as it soared overhead.
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We are flying over the Pacific.
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