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JLPT N4
丁寧

JLPT N4 · Vocabulary

丁寧 — “polite, courteous, careful”

丁寧 (read ていねい) means polite, courteous, careful. It appears on the JLPT N4 vocabulary list and is a な-adjective.

Reading

ていねい

Meaning

polite, courteous, careful

丁寧 in a sentence

丁寧ていねいに字じを書きかきました。

I wrote the characters carefully.

The kanji in 丁寧

丁block (address); attentive
寧calm; rather

Words that share a kanji with 丁寧

丁度ちょうど— just, right, exactly
包丁ほうちょう— kitchen knife
寧ろむしろ— rather, better, if anything

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