定番

Reading

Kana: ていばん

Romaji: teiban

Definition

noun

adj-no

1

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

Kanji

定

Readings: テイ、 ジョウ、 さだ.める、 さだ.まる、 さだ.か

Meanings: determine, fix, establish, decide

番

Readings: バン、 つが.い

Meanings: turn, number in a series

Example Sentences

若(わか)い男女(だんじょ)が人里(ひとざと)離(はな)れた洋館(ようかん)で恐怖(きょうふ)の一夜(いちや)を過(す)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.

何(なに)か出(で)そうな定番(ていばん)の場所(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独(ひと)りでに動(うご)き出(だ)す人体(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 ...