亜あ熱ねっ帯たい

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

subtropics; subtropical zone

Refers to the geographical region between the tropics and temperate zones, or the climate characteristic of that region.

〈場ば所しょ〉は亜あ熱ねっ帯たいに属ぞくするa place belongs to/lies in the subtropical zone
沖おき縄なわは亜あ熱ねっ帯たいに属ぞくする地ち域いきだ。
Okinawa is a region that lies in the subtropics.
亜あ熱ねっ帯たい特とく有ゆうの〈物もの〉something peculiar/native to the subtropics
この島しまには亜あ熱ねっ帯たい特とく有ゆうの植しょく物ぶつが多おおい。
This island has many plants that are peculiar to the subtropics.

熱ねっ帯たいN3
熱帯 refers to the tropical zone near the equator, while 亜熱帯 is the adjacent subtropical zone just outside it, and the two are easily mixed up because 亜熱帯 contains 熱帯 as a substring.
温おん帯たいN2
温帯 is the temperate zone farther from the equator than 亜熱帯, and learners sometimes confuse the order of 熱帯→亜熱帯→温帯 when naming climate zones.

Compound of 亜 (a, 'sub-') and 熱帯 (nettai, 'tropics'), literally 'sub-tropics'. The reading あねったい is a standard Sino-Japanese reading of the kanji.