Illustration: Beside an Edo-period village mill, a maintained channel delivers a steady stream onto a wooden waterwheel. Water fills successive paddles and drains into the lower channel while the connected milling mechanism turns inside the open doorway.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

持じ続ぞく的てき

jizokuteki

sustained, sustainable

Example sentences

  1. その思想しそうもやはり営利活動えいりかつどうを否定ひていせず、倫理りんりというよりむしろ「ビジネスの持続的じぞくてき発展はってん」の観点かんてんから、本業ほんぎょうの中なかで社会的責任しゃかいてきせきにんを果はたしていくことを説といている。

    The thought also does not deny a profit-making activity and teaches to achieve social responsibility in main business from a viewpoint of 'sustainable development of business' rather than ethics.

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

  2. 会社かいしゃは持続的じぞくてきな成長せいちょうを目指めざしている。

    The company aims for sustained growth.

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  3. この活動かつどうには持続的じぞくてきな支援しえんが必要ひつようだ。

    This activity needs ongoing support.

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Kanji in 持続的

  • 持hold; haveOnジKunもつ・もてる
  • 続continue; seriesOnゾク・ショク・コウKunつづく・つづける・つぐない
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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