Illustration: In their bedroom after school, a student deliberately places a handheld game console inside a storage drawer while pulling a workbook and pencil toward them with the other hand.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ律りつ

jiritsu

autonomy, self-discipline

Example sentences

  1. これは自律じりつ的てきな機械きかいです。

    This is an autonomous machine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 王家おうけの分裂ぶんれつを固定化こていかする意図いとによるものとする説せつと、皇位継承こういけいしょうを王家おうけの自律じりつに任まかせ直接的ちょくせつてきな関与かんよを避さける意図いとによるものとする説せつとが対立たいりつしている。

    There are two opposing theories, one that this was done to establish a division in the Imperial family, and the other is that it was done to avoid direct intervention and leave the Imperial succession to the autonomy of the Imperial family.

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

  3. 日本美術にっぽんびじゅつの流ながれを理解りかいするには、常つねに中国ちゅうごくや朝鮮半島ちょうせんはんとうの美術史びじゅつしと対比たいひして考かんがえねばならず、日本にっぽんの美術びじゅつが日本人にっぽんじんのみの手てによって自律じりつ的てきに発達はったつしたものと考かんがえることは誤あやまりである。

    Therefore, in order to understand the trend of Japanese art, it should always be compared with the art history of China and Korea, and if you think Japanese developed their art all by themselves, it is wrong.

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

Kanji in 自律

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 律rhythm; lawOnリツ・リチ・レツ

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