Illustration: In a compact company apartment, a worker eats a modest dinner alone while video-calling their spouse and child, who sit together at a larger family dining table on the tablet screen. Half-unpacked moving boxes, a single futon, and one set of dishes establish the worker's separate residence.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

単たん身しん赴ふ任にん

tanshinfunin

to work away from one’s family

Used when a worker relocates without their family. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 参勤交代さんきんこうたいで江戸えどに単身赴任たんしんふにんする各藩かくはんの家臣かしんはかなりの数かずに上のぼり、この結果けっか、江戸えどの人口じんこうの約半数やくはんすうが武士ぶしとなっていた。

    Because a large number of vassals of each clan went to Edo leaving their families in their domains owing to sankin-kotai, warriors accounted for about half the population in Edo.

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

  2. 父ちちの単身赴任たんしんふにんが終おわり、また家族かぞくで暮くらせる。

    My father’s posting away from the family is over, so we can live together again.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 夫おっとの単身赴任たんしんふにんが決きまり、家族かぞくは東京とうきょうに残のこる。

    My husband has been assigned to work away from home, and the rest of the family will stay in Tokyo.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 単身赴任

  • 単simple; oneOnタンKunひとえ
  • 身somebody; personOnシンKunみ
  • 赴proceed; getOnフKunおもむく
  • 任responsibility; entrustOnニンKunまかせる・まかす

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