スキマ
Meanings
Noun
1. gap; opening; aperture; crevice; crack; chink; space
I walked for a while, thinking I would find a gap somewhere.
2. spare moment; interval; break
I squeezed a meeting into a gap in my schedule.
3. unguarded moment; carelessness; chink in one's armor; weak spot
Pitch accent
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キマ
Composed of
gap; opening; break; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness
time; pause; space; room
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
draft; draught; cold air entering through the crack of a door or window; cooling off of a relationship; draft of cold air between two persons
closely; compactly; leaving no space
Examples (13 in total)
Light was showing through the gap in the door.
I squeezed a meeting into a gap in my schedule.
The rain was dripping through a leak in the roof.
From the look of it, there are hardly any gaps.
I peeked into the room through the gap in the door.
At that moment, a slip of paper fell out from between the pages of the notebook.
The stark white morning sun was shining in through the gap in the curtains.
I walked for a while, thinking I would find a gap somewhere.
Morning light is coming in through the gap in the curtains.
Regular hexagons can tessellate a plane without leaving gaps.
It seems the girl forced the doll out through the narrow gap.
Even large ones can fit in if there is a three-millimeter gap.
The light leaks through the gaps between the fingers, illuminating the surroundings in blue.