WORD DETAIL
車間距離
しゃかんきょり
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Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
車間距離combines車間, interval between vehicles, with距離, distance, and denotes the following distance between moving vehicles. - Basic usage: The reference vehicle appears in
前の車との車間距離, and maintaining space in車間距離を取る.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Vehicle spacing versus travel distance
- It is the gap maintained between vehicles, not the distance one vehicle has traveled from its starting point.
- Meaning of
取る- In
車間距離を取る,取るmeans to leave or maintain the necessary space, not to take possession of a distance.
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