決まり – vocab dash

決きまり

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Meanings

Noun

No-adjective

1. rule; regulation

2. settlement; conclusion; end; agreement; arrangement

3. habit; custom; habitual way

4. countenance in front of another person; face (usu. as 決まりが悪い, etc.)

Kanji used

Pitch accent

きまり

Used in vocabulary

clincher; winning technique; official winning technique

Noun

set phrase; stock phrase; conventional expression; usual wording; cliché; clichéd line

Noun

definite decision; final decision

Noun

rule; established routine; standard operating procedure; SOP

Noun

kimariji (comp. karuta); beginning characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu

Noun

Examples16

毎まい日にちのきまり仕し事ごとにはつくづく飽あきた。

I am quite tired of daily routine.

その会かい社しゃには遅ち刻こくに対たいする厳きびしいきまりがある。

The company has hard and fast rules against lateness.

ナイフとフォークの使つかい方かたには決きまりがある。

There is a rule concerning the use of knives and forks.

学がっ校こうの決きまりは守まもらないといけないぞ。

You must follow school rules.

昔むかしは若わか者ものは社しゃ会かいのきまりを軽けい蔑べつしていたものだ。

Young people used to look down on the rules of society.

お決きまりの質しつ問もんで悪わるいのだけど、これ以い外がいには思おもいつかない。

I'm sure people ask you this question all the time, but it's all that comes to mind right now.