軒並

のきなみ · nokinami · JLPT N1 · noun

house

🏠 軒 (eaves) + 並 (line up) = houses whose eaves line up in a row

軒 is the eave or roof edge of a house, and 並 means to stand side by side. Together they describe a street of identical houses in a row, which gives the sense of uniformly.

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