Illustration: In a neighborhood community center, an arriving participant is halfway through lowering onto a chair at a shared craft table. Their knees are bent, one hand holds the chair back, and their bag has just been placed beside the chair leg.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

着ちゃく席せき

chakuseki

to take a seat

Example sentences

  1. どうぞご着席ちゃくせきください、みなさん。

    Please be seated, ladies and gentlemen.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 起立きりつ!礼れい!着席ちゃくせき!

    Stand up! Bow! Sit down! (sequence used to greet teachers in school)

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. しかし、議長ぎちょうを不信任ふしんにんとなったにも関かかわらず議長席ぎちょうせきへの着席ちゃくせきに固執こしつしたため、衆議院しゅうぎいんから除名じょめいされた。

    However, since HOSHI refused to give up his position as chairman even after the non-confidence motion was passed, he was expelled from the House of Representatives.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 着席

  • 着wear; arriveOnチャク・ジャクKunきる・きせる・つく
  • 席seat; matOnセキKunむしろ

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