Keyword
wall
Info
FrequencyTop 400-500
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig1616
Readings
へき
(52%)
かべ
(45%)
ぺき
(2%)
Composed of
punishment
earth
Used in vocabulary (157 in total)
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
close to the wall; alongside the wall
rampart; castle walls
Examples (119 in total)
If walls could talk, what stories would they tell us?
I hate the colour of this wall.
There are many paintings on the wall.
In the middle of the wall at the back of the room is a large window.
He stood with his back to the wall.
His shadow on the wall looked sad.
They are breaking down the wall.
I hung a picture on the wall.
The car crashed into the wall.
There are some pictures on the wall.
Please put the table next to the wall.
There is a map on the wall.
Look at the map on the wall carefully.
I hit my head hard against the wall.
The walls supported the entire weight of the roof.
Don't climb the wall.
Dogs can't climb up walls.
By evening the shadow of the tree reached the wall.
I hate the color of these walls.
His pictures were hung on the wall.
She decorated the wall with pictures.
There is a clock on the wall.
This wall feels very cold.
This wall feels cold.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
My father painted the wall white.
The man painting the wall is my father.
We've painted the walls white.
He had his sister help him paint the wall of his room.
They painted the wall white.
She painted the walls white.
Dad painted the walls white.
My father is busy building a wall.
There's a spider on the wall.
As soon as you get the wall painted, you can go home.
The picture is on the wall now.
The map is on the wall.
He painted all the walls green.
She painted the wall pink.
He threw the ball against the wall.
He took advantage of the fine weather to paint the wall.
She took advantage of the fine weather to paint the wall.
The floor was painted green, while the walls were yellow.
The boy drew a picture on the wall.
She seemed pressed for time and often glanced at the clock on the wall.
Don't lean against this wall.
He leaned against the wall as he was tired.
He stood against the wall with his hands in his pockets.
When did you have your wall painted?
Don't lean against the wall.
He stood on one leg, leaning against the wall.
He was leaning against the wall.
Ken jumped over the wall.
He leaned against the wall.
I noticed him sitting with his back against the wall.
There is a portrait of Bob on the wall.
There's a huge hole in the wall.
Who do you think wrote that graffiti on the wall?
There's graffiti on the walls.
The walls were covered with graffiti.
The wall is covered with graffiti.
The walls of Mary's room were covered with posters.
He drew a straight line on the wall.
A portrait was hung on the wall.
I peeped out through a crack in the wall.
He propped his bike against the wall.
Tom and Mary are going to build a wall around their house.
Tom threw his cell phone against the wall.
Tom has a picture of a squirrel on his bedroom wall.
Tom has a picture of a girl in a bikini on his bedroom wall.
The man dashed the bottle against the wall.
One can't see through a brick wall.
The wall was coated with paint.
We're going to paint the wall.
I hung the calendar on the wall.
I hang the calendar on the wall.
The thing blocking my path was a stone wall of less than 1 meter's height.
He plastered the wall with posters.
The posters were immediately removed from the wall.
His eye fell on the picture on the wall.
There is a Picasso on the wall.
They had to climb a wall six feet high.
Our task is to repair a wall.
What colour are those walls?
They fixed the sign to the wall.
The walls of this apartment are weather-beaten after many years of wind and rain.
We must work hard to break down social barriers.
The wall is thirty yards long.
The wall was made of rough stones.
He saw a butterfly on the wall.
The color of the carpet is in harmony with the wall.
Hang that picture on the wall.
He hung a picture on the wall.
He pressed his ear against the wall.
He hung an old, wooden oar on his wall as a decoration.
She hung the calendar on the wall.
My grandfather's picture is on the wall.
Unless Japan eliminates those barriers, the U.S. will take sanctions.
They built the walls of the fortress without using cement at all.
We can get a glimpse of the lifestyle of ancient people from this wall painting.
Tom pointed to the picture on the wall.
The picture on the wall was painted by Picasso.
A portrait of an old man was hanging on the wall.
I used a photo of my dog for my desktop wallpaper.
I helped her hang the picture on the wall.
She's just a wallflower.
She stained the wall beige.
I made a hole in the wall.
The bullet penetrated the partition.
Attempts to redraw voting districts have hit a wall of opposition.
It casts mysterious shadows on the wall.
The tree casts a shadow on the wall.
The bookshelves are built into the walls of my room.
The outside walls of the auditorium are terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.
In spite of the language difficulty, we soon became friends.
The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.
Tom was twelve when the Berlin Wall fell.
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Trade barriers were lifted after the war ended.