Illustration: In the back room of a small printing workshop, an owner explains a worker's increased regular pay using a sequence of open wage envelopes. The earlier envelopes contain equal modest stacks of coins; the current envelope and the prepared envelopes following it contain matching larger stacks.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

昇しょう給きゅう

shoukyuu

pay raise

Example sentences

  1. トムは昇給しょうきゅうを願ねがい出でた。

    Tom asked for a raise.

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  2. 昇給しょうきゅうを当あてにしないほうがいい。

    You’d better not count on a raise.

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  3. 私わたしたちの昇給しょうきゅうの要求ようきゅうは拒絶きょぜつされた。

    Our request for a pay rise was turned down.

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Kanji in 昇給

  • 昇rise upOnショウKunのぼる
  • 給salary; wageOnキュウKunたまう・たもう

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