Japanese Dictionary

Meaning of 銀河系(ぎんがけい) in Japanese

銀河系
Kana Reading
ぎんがけい
Romaji
gingakei
Word Senses
  • Parts of speech
    noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
    Meaning
    galaxy; galactic system
    Example sentence
    ジャンスキーが観測したのは銀河系の中心核からの波長14.6mの電波であった。 What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.

Examples of 銀河系, ぎんがけい in a sentence

Kanji in this word

河 JLPT 2

8 strokes

river

On'Yomi: カ

Kun'Yomi: かわ

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系 JLPT 1

7 strokes

lineage, system

On'Yomi: ケイ

Kun'Yomi:

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銀 JLPT 4

14 strokes

silver

On'Yomi: ギン

Kun'Yomi: しろがね

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