集中

しゅうちゅう
concentration, focusing the mind

Reading

Readingしゅうちゅう
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji集中

Meanings

  1. concentration
  2. focusing the mind
  1. concentration (on a task)n.vs.vt.vi.
  2. focusing one's attention
  3. concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.)n.vs.vt.vi.
  4. centralization
  5. convergence
  6. focus (of a debate, questions, etc.)
  7. within a collection of worksn.

Synonyms

専念打ち込む没頭熱中

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

一回集中しまーす
いちかいしゅうちゅうしまーすLet me focus for a moment.
何かに集中できる環境が欲しい
なにかにしゅうちゅうできるかんきょうがほしいI want an environment where I can focus on something.
その間、僕らに会話はなかった。画面に集中していた。
そのかん、ぼくらにかいわはなかった。がめんにしゅうちゅうしていた。In that time, we had no conversation. We were focused on the screen.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 集中

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked