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歯車 (はぐるま): gear, cog-wheel — Japanese vocabulary

歯車 is read はぐるま and means "gear, cog-wheel". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

歯車

Reading
はぐるま · haguruma
Translation
gear, cog-wheel
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
はぐるまが

Example

歯車がかみ合っている。

はぐるまがかみあっている。

The cog-wheels are in gear.

Kanji in this word

  • 歯 — tooth
  • 車 — car, vehicle

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