Illustration: In a Japanese pear orchard, a grower gently cups a fully developed pear while an apprentice supports a shallow harvest basket. The ripe pear has a rounded body and separates from its branch with a careful upward turn. Smaller, firmer-looking pears remain attached nearby, visibly less developed.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

成せい熟じゅく

seijuku

to mature

Example sentences

  1. 進すすんで責任せきにんを取とるということは成熟せいじゅくの印しるしである。

    Willingness to take responsibility is a sign of maturity.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. サルは２、３歳さいで成熟せいじゅくする。

    A monkey is mature at a few years old.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 川かわで小動物しょうどうぶつを捕食ほしょくして成長せいちょうし、5年ねんから十数年じゅうすうねんほどかけて成熟せいじゅくする。

    They grow by preying on small animals around the river, and they mature in about five to a little over ten years.

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

Kanji in 成熟

  • 成turn into; becomeOnセイ・ジョウKunなる・なす
  • 熟mellow; ripenOnジュクKunうれる

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