Illustration: At the entrance of a neighborhood bicycle repair shop, a worker has cleaned exactly half of a mud-covered window with a squeegee. A straight, sharply defined boundary separates the opaque muddy half from the spotless half, with no uncertain transition between them.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

明めい確かく

meikaku

clear, precise

Example sentences

  1. できるだけ明確めいかくに話はなしたほうがいい。

    You had better talk as clearly as you can.

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  2. 明確めいかくな返事へんじが欲ほしい。

    Give me a definite answer.

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  3. 明確めいかくさが一番大事いちばんだいじです。

    Clarity comes first.

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Kanji in 明確

  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ
  • 確assurance; firmOnカク・コウKunたしか・たしかめる

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