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超, ちょう, チョー

  • chō,chō
JLPT LEVEL 1

Definition

noun (common) (futsuumeishi), noun, used as a suffix, prefix

  • super-
  • ultra-
  • hyper-
  • very
  • really

Definition

  • over
  • more than

Examples of 超,ちょう,チョー in a Sentence

超高速がコンコルド機の特徴だ。
Great speed is a feature of the Concorde.
超高圧水の噴射により、ほとんどの詰まりが排除される。
By means of a super high-pressure water spray practically all the sediment is removed.
はい、今度はこれね！これとこれの組み合わせなんて超いけてるかも！
OK, this next! The combination of this and this might be way sexy!
欧州を参考にしつつ、超高齢化社会への政策対応、「経済大国」から「生活大国」への転換を２１世紀に向けて日本はしていかねばならない。
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.
３０階建の超高層ビルが突然爆発炎上した。
All of a sudden, the thirty-story skyscraper went up in flames.
超年老いた夫婦が、結婚７５周年を祝して豪華な夕食を食べていた。
A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.
あたり一帯に超高層ビルが建っています。
High-rises are going up all over the place.
この土地に超高層ビルを建てることは法律が禁じている。
The law forbids the building of any skyscraper on this land.
そして、こうしたものからほんのわずかしか隔たっていない知覚が、直接的な信号がまったくないのにおこる、「超感覚的な」というレッテルを付けざるを得ない知覚なのである。
And it is only a very short step from there, to perception which occurs in the absence of all immediate signals and has to be labeled extrasensory.

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