Illustration: In a home kitchen, a cook lowers the final dumpling from a serving tray into the only empty spot in a bamboo steamer. All the dumplings fit in an even arrangement, with none squeezed against another and no vacant space remaining. The tray in the cook's other hand is now completely empty.

JLPT N5adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

ちょうど

choudo

exactly, just

Example sentences

  1. ちょうど五時ごじです。

    It is just five o’clock.

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  2. 丁度ちょうどいい大おおきさよ。

    It’s just the right size.

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  3. ちょうど今いまは忙いそがしい。

    I’m busy at the moment.

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