新しん幹かん線せん
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Meanings
Noun
1. Shinkansen; bullet train
Kanji used
Pitch accent
しんかんせん
Composed of
新しん
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar
Prefix
幹かん線せん
main line; trunk line
Noun
Used in vocabulary
Examples10
How fast the new Shinkansen goes!
The next Shinkansen train leaves at just nine o'clock.
If you travel by Shinkansen, it doesn't seem far from Nagoya to Tokyo.
The train was delayed for one hour on account of the typhoon.
Can we still catch the 6:00 Shinkansen?
I bumped into an old friend for the first time in ten years on the Shinkansen the other day.