Illustration: During a tabletop skill game at a Japanese children’s club, a player’s elbow crosses a clearly marked physical boundary and knocks over a barrier peg. Beside the game, the judge lifts one counter out of the player’s accumulated row of scoring counters and places it in a separate penalty dish.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

減げん点てん

genten

deducting points

Example sentences

  1. 一般いっぱんに、ワインのテイスティングが加点法かてんほうで評価ひょうかされるのに対たいし、日本酒にほんしゅの利きき酒ざけは基本的きほんてきに減点げんてん法ほうである。

    Whereas wine tasting adopts a point-addition system in general, kikizake for tasting sake basically adopts a point-deduction scoring system.

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

  2. しかし全国新酒鑑評会ぜんこくしんしゅかんひょうかいでは過去かこに、色いろのついたまま出品しゅっぴんされている酒さけは減点げんてんの対象たいしょうとしていた時代じだいがあり、それゆえ酒蔵さかぐらでは活性炭かっせいたんなどで必死ひっしに色いろを抜ぬいていた。

    However, there was a time when sake entered in the National New Sake Appraisal with its color intact was subject to point deductions, so breweries worked hard to remove the color with activated charcoal and other materials.

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

  3. 答こたえは合あっていたが、漢字かんじの間違まちがいで減点げんてんされた。

    My answer was correct, but I lost points for a kanji mistake.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 減点

  • 減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす
  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる

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