Illustration: At a neighborhood recreation gathering in Japan, a child reaches through the small opening of an opaque draw box while deliberately looking away. A volunteer steadies the box, and another participant holds a freshly opened paper bearing only a large star shape.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

くじ

kuji

lot, lottery draw

Example sentences

  1. くじを引ひいて誰だれが最初さいしょか決きめよう。

    Let’s draw lots to decide who goes first.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 早朝そうちょうの受付うけつけでクジを引ひいて順番じゅんばんを決きめた。

    We drew lots to decide who would go first at the early morning reception desk.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 要するに内部での調整は不可能、クジ引で決めるしかなかったということである。

    In other words, adjustment within was impossible and had to be decided by lottery.

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

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