Illustration: A small delivery van inches through a narrow residential lane between a garden wall and scaffolding. A delivery assistant walks beside the open driver's window at an easy pace, one hand giving a restrained slow-forward gesture.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

徐じょ行こう

jokou

to go slowly, to reduce speed

Used especially for vehicles moving slowly enough to stop immediately. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 車くるまに徐行じょこうするようにと合図あいずした。

    I signaled the car to go slow.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 車くるまが徐行じょこうでついてきているような気きがする。

    I think that that car is slowly following us.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これを知しった家康いえやすは激怒げきどし、秀忠ひでただに軍勢ぐんぜいを休やすませて徐行じょこうして進軍しんぐんするように命めいじている。

    When Ieyasu learned of this, he was furious and ordered Hidetada to let his troops rest, then advance slowly.

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

Kanji in 徐行

  • 徐gradually; slowlyOnジョKunおもむろに
  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう

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