Illustration: At a shared pottery studio, several worktables display ordinary round-handled mugs. One potter’s table instead holds a coherent family of cups, jugs, and teapots whose handles curl into the same distinctive folded-leaf shape.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

独どく自じ

dokuji

unique, distinctive

Example sentences

  1. どの民族みんぞくも独自どくじの神話しんわを持もっている。

    Every nation has its own myths.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. お歳暮せいぼは日本にっぽん独自どくじの習慣しゅうかんの一ひとつである。

    Sending year-end gifts is one of the customs peculiar to Japan.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. このタッチは彼女かのじょ独自どくじのものだ。

    This touch is original with her.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 独自

  • 独single; aloneOnドク・トクKunひとり
  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと

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