Illustration: Inside a small furniture workshop, a young apprentice pauses over a practice joint and watches the senior craftsperson fit a beautifully made chair back. Several increasingly neat practice joints line the apprentice's bench, beside a carefully maintained hand plane.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

志し向こう

shikou

orientation, aim

Example sentences

  1. その会社かいしゃの強つよさは未来みらい志向しこうの戦略せんりゃくによって生うみだされている。

    The strength of the firm is attributed to its future-oriented strategy.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 過去かこを志向しこうする社会しゃかいでは、人々ひとびとは過去かこと伝統でんとうにいつまでもこだわり続つづける。

    In a past-oriented society, people dwell on the past and on tradition.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 若者わかもののポップス志向しこうがより強つよくなり演歌離えんかばなれが進すすむ。

    Young peoples increasingly moved away from enka and showed growing preference for pops.

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

Kanji in 志向

  • 志intention; planOnシKunシリング・こころざす・こころざし
  • 向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける

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