Illustration: At a neighborhood community hall, a grandfather sleeps in the front row throughout his granddaughter’s puppet performance. Follow the same short performance from the opening curtain, through a dragon puppet’s noisy entrance, to the performers’ final bow.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

終しゅう始し

shuushi

throughout, the whole time

Example sentences

彼かれは私わたしたちが一緒いっしょに働はたらいていたとき終始しゅうし私わたしをからかっていた。
He was always pulling my leg when we worked together.
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終始しゅうし勉強べんきょうばかりしていないで、たまには外出がいしゅつして楽たのしみなさい。
Go out and have a good time once in a while instead of just studying all the time.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
学生がくせいたちは終始しゅうしじっと座すわっていた。
The students sat still all the time.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 終始

終end; finishOnシュウKunおわる・おわる・おえる
始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる

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