Illustration: In a Japanese neighborhood meeting room, several volunteers cluster around an electric kettle that will not heat. One person spreads both hands in an elaborate, puzzled explanation while another examines the lid.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

端たん的てき

tanteki

concise, straightforward

Example sentences

端的たんてきに言いって、彼かれは首くびになったのだ。
To make a long story short, he was fired.
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端的たんてきに言いって、彼かれには音楽おんがくの才能さいのうがない。
To put it briefly, he lacks musical ability.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
このことは、日本にっぽんの鉄道技術てつどうぎじゅつの水準すいじゅんを端的たんてきに示しめす要素ようそであるとも言いえる。
It could be said that this fact plainly shows a high level of railway-related technologies in Japan.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 端的

端edge; originOnタンKunはし・は・はた
的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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