Illustration: At a neighborhood badminton tournament in a Japanese municipal gym, the runner-up stands on the second-highest block of an unnumbered winners’ podium. Their medal rests against their chest, and they hold a modest cup while looking cheerfully toward the champion on the higher central block.

JLPT N2prefixLevel estimated by Bebop

準じゅん

jun

semi-, quasi-

Attaches to another word, as in 準優勝. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 1998年ねんのワールドカップでは、ブラジルは準じゅん優勝ゆうしょうに終おわった。

    Brazil finished runners-up in the 1998 World Cup.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. そのチームは準決勝じゅんけっしょうに勝かって決勝けっしょうに進出しんしゅつした。

    The team won the semifinals and advanced to the finals.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 近鉄京都線きんてつきょうとせんの急行きゅうこう・準じゅん急停車駅きゅうていしゃえきに昇格しょうかく。

    The status of this station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line has been raised to that of the station where express trains and semi-express trains stop.

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

Kanji in 準

  • 準semi-; correspond toOnジュンKunじゅんじる・じゅんずる・なぞらえる

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