Illustration: During a sewing lesson in a Japanese community centre, a teacher examines a student's row of stitches with a small ruler. Nearly every stitch is even, but one is slightly longer. With a composed, unsmiling face, the teacher points precisely to that stitch and places a seam ripper beside the work.

JLPT N4i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

厳きびしい

kibishii

strict, severe

Example sentences

  1. 練習れんしゅうがどんなに厳きびしくても、彼女かのじょは決けっして泣なかなかった。

    However hard the training was, she never cried.

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  2. 先生せんせいって、厳きびしい？

    Is your teacher strict?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 世間せけんは厳きびしい。

    The world is harsh.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 厳

  • 厳stern; strictnessOnゲン・ゴンKunおごそか・きびしい・いかめしい

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