定番

Reading

Kana: ていばん
Romaji: teiban
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Romaji

Definition

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standard (goods, procedure, etc.); (one's) routine; product with consistent sales; staple (of a situation, of a fiction genre, etc.)

Kanji

Readings: テイ、 ジョウ、 さだ.める、 さだ.まる、 さだ.か
Meanings: determine, fix, establish, decide
Readings: バン、 つが.い
Meanings: turn, number in a series

Example Sentences

(わか)男女(だんじょ)人里(ひとざと)(はな)れた洋館(ようかん)恐怖(きょうふ)一夜(いちや)()ごすという、ホラーの定番(ていばん)スタイルだ。
➥This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.
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(なに)()そうな定番(ていばん)場所(ばしょ)ですからね。自動(じどう)演奏(えんそう)するグランドピアノや(ひと)りでに(うご)()人体(じんたい)模型(もけい)や。
➥That's because they're the classic places for 'something' to appear. Like the grand piano that plays by itself, the human anatomical model that moves by itself ...
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