Illustration: At a small workshop's accounts table, a worker gathers three monthly calendar sheets into one shallow archive tray. Nine matching sheets remain in three adjacent trays, three in each, so the complete year is visibly divided into four equal groups.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

四し半はん期き

shihanki

quarter of a year

Example sentences

  1. 小売部門こうりぶもんは厳きびしい四半期しはんきを迎むかえた。

    The retail sector had a rough quarter.

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  2. 四半期しはんきに２度ど、販売計画書はんばいけいかくしょを提出ていしゅつしなければならない。

    I have to submit sales projections twice a quarter.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 企業収益きぎょうしゅうえきは第だい１四半期しはんきに大おおきく改善かいぜんした。

    Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 四半期

  • 四fourOnシKunよ・よつ・よっつ
  • 半half; middleOnハンKunなかば
  • 期period; timeOnキ・ゴ

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