じゅう

Also written ぢゅう, 中

Meanings

1. Suffix (all) through (e.g. the night); throughout (e.g. the year); all ... long
2. within (e.g. the week); in the course of (e.g. today); by the end of (as 〜に)
3. all over; throughout (e.g. the world)
4. all (of a group); the whole (family, school, etc.)

Example sentences

• その間じゅう、彼女は泣いてばかりいた。
  She did nothing but cry all the while.
• そこらじゅう蚊に刺されてかゆくてしょうがない。
  I got bit by mosquitoes all over this area, and it itches so badly I can't stand it.
• アリは夏じゅうせっせとはたらく。
  Ants work away during summer.
• 彼はその間じゅう居眠りをしていた。
  He dozed all the while.
• 彼女は１日じゅう家にいました。
  She stayed in the house all day.

Words containing じゅう

• いっかくじゅう座 (いっかくじゅうざ) Monoceros (constellation)
• にじゅうやほしてんとう 28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)
• じゅうもんじしだ Polystichum tripteron (species of the wood fern family)

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