手段

しゅだん
means, way, measure

Reading

Readingしゅだん
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji手段

Meanings

  1. means
  2. way
  3. measure

Synonyms

仕方手口手法方法

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

行為の目的に対して科学は手段あるいは道具を提供するに過ぎぬ。
こういのもくてきにたいしてかがくはしゅだんあるいはどうぐをていきょうするにすぎぬ。Science provides means or tools for achieving the purpose of action, nothing more.
目的しか語らず、手段がないがしろになってる
もくてきしかかたらず、しゅだんがないがしろになってるThey speak only of objectives, and means get pushed aside.
言い換えると、知性は技術を手段に化するのである。
いいかえると、ちせいはぎじゅつをしゅだんにかするのである。In other words, intelligence makes technology into a means.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 手段

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked