Illustration: At a neighborhood festival game in Japan, a child has just thrown a soft ball at a freestanding round target on a short hinged post. The ball visibly compresses against the target's center as the target begins tipping backward.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

命めい中ちゅう

meichuu

to hit the target

Example sentences

  1. 戦艦せんかんビスマルク号ごうを海うみのもくずとするには、何発なんぱつもの魚雷ぎょらいを命中めいちゅうさせなければならなかった。

    It took many torpedo hits to send the battleship Bismarck to Davy Jones’s locker.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 砲弾ほうだんは天守てんしゅにも命中めいちゅう、城内じょうないは大混乱だいこんらんとなる。

    The artillery shells hit the main tower of the castle and caused havoc inside.

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

  3. 続つづいて道長みちながが「我われれ摂関せっかんに至いたらば当あたれ」と言いって放はなつとやはり命中めいちゅうした。

    Then Michinaga said 'if I am to become Regent and Senior Regent, let the arrow hit the target' and he released the arrow and it hit the target again.

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

Kanji in 命中

  • 命fate; commandOnメイ・ミョウKunいのち
  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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