Illustration: After a craft activity in a Japanese elementary classroom, one child notices paper scraps beneath the shared table and independently fetches a dustpan and brush. Their classmates are already collecting school bags, and the teacher is busy helping someone fasten a backpack across the room.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ主しゅ的てき

jishuteki

voluntary, independent

Example sentences

  1. また、短期間たんきかんでの帰還理由きかんりゆうについても、自主的じしゅてき撤退てったいとする説せつが出だされている。

    There is also a theory that they voluntarily withdrew after a short period.

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

  2. これが幕末ばくまつの開国以後日本かいこくいごにっぽんが急速きゅうそくに自主的じしゅてきな近代化きんだいかを達成たっせいしえた基盤きばんのひとつになったといえる。

    This became the basis of Japan’s rapid and independent attainment of modernization after the Bakufu opened the country during the end of Edo period.

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

  3. 宮内庁くないちょうでは、国民こくみんの自主的じしゅてきな意思いしに基もとづく奉仕ほうしによる皇居こうきょの清掃活動せいそうかつどうへの参加さんかを受うけ付つけている。

    The Imperial Household Agency allows the public to voluntarily participate in cleaning the Palace.

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

Kanji in 自主的

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 主lord; chiefOnシュ・ス・シュウKunぬし・おも・あるじ
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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