Illustration: In a neighborhood alterations shop, a customer stands on a fitting platform wearing trousers with one hem dragging beneath a shoe. The tailor has pinned the other hem to the proper height and now folds the remaining excess fabric upward.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

補ほ正せい

hosei

to correct, to adjust

Example sentences

  1. 正確せいかくな音程おんていが得えられないため、奏者そうしゃが音程おんていの補正ほせいをする必要ひつようがある。

    Because it is generally not possible to obtain an accurate tuning in the older shakuhachi as mentioned above, the player must make adjustments for pitch irregularities while playing.

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

  2. 母国語ぼこくごが日本語にほんごではない方々かたがたが、一生懸命頑張いっしょうけんめいがんばって書かいておられる日本語にほんごは、多少違たしょうちがっていても頭あたまの中なかで補正ほせいして読よんでしまいます。

    When I read Japanese written by people whose native language isn’t Japanese and who are doing their best, I find myself correcting small mistakes in my head as I go.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 予算よさんの補正ほせいが必要ひつようになりました。

    The budget needed to be revised.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 補正

  • 補supplement; compensateOnホKunおぎなう
  • 正correct; justiceOnセイ・ショウKunただしい・ただす・まさ

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