Illustration: Inside a small neighborhood music studio, a student opens the lesson-room door at the exact instant a mechanical wall clock releases its cuckoo. The clock face has plain hour ticks, with the minute hand precisely at the top and the hour hand at three.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

きっかり

kikkari

exactly on time

Example sentences

  1. ケイトは5時じきっかりに来きた。

    Kate came at five sharp.

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  2. 10時じきっかりです。

    It’s ten o’clock sharp.

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  3. 10時じきっかりに来きなさい。

    Come at ten o’clock sharp.

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