Illustration: At a home kitchen counter, a parent finishes closing a rectangular lunch box. One hand presses the lid perfectly flush while the other snaps the second side clasp into place; the first clasp is already secured. Every corner aligns, with no food caught in the rim and no gap beneath the lid.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

きちっと

kichitto

properly, exactly

Example sentences

  1. 靴くつを脱ぬいだらきちっと揃そろえておきなさい。

    If you are taking your shoes off, please put them in their place.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 田中たなかさんとこの息子むすこさん、いつもきちっと挨拶あいさつしてくれるし、この間あいだは荷物にもつを運はこぶのも手伝てつだってくれたの。

    Mr. Tanaka’s son always greets me properly, and the other day he even helped carry the bags.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 仕舞しまいを「きちっと」する事ことでもある。

    It also means putting an orderly end to a thing or action.

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

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