測量士

Reading

Kana: そくりょうし

Romaji: sokuryōshi

Definition

noun

1

registered surveyor

Kanji

測

Readings: ソク、 はか.る

Meanings: fathom, plan, scheme, measure

量

Readings: リョウ、 はか.る

Meanings: quantity, measure, weight, amount, consider, estimate, surmise

士

Readings: シ、 さむらい

Meanings: gentleman, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)

Example Sentence

それからまもなく幾(いく)人(にん)かの測量士(そくりょうし)と自称(じしょう)する変(へん)な服装(ふくそう)をした人(ひと)たちが集落(しゅうらく)にやってきて、祖母(そぼ)の小屋(こや)の前(まえ)を測(はか)っていきました。

➥Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.