Illustration: At a modest Japanese railway platform, a uniformed employee checks a pocket watch and raises a departure signal toward a waiting train. The watch and the platform's plain, unnumbered analog clock show matching hand positions exactly at the hour.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

定てい刻こく

teikoku

scheduled time

Example sentences

  1. 定刻ていこくに到着とうちゃくしますか。

    Are we arriving on time?

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  2. 列車れっしゃは定刻ていこくに着ついた。

    The train arrived on schedule.

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  3. 船ふねは定刻ていこく前まえに出発しゅっぱつした。

    The ship left ahead of time.

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Kanji in 定刻

  • 定determine; fixOnテイ・ジョウKunさだめる・さだまる・さだか
  • 刻engrave; cut fineOnコクKunきざむ・きざみ

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