VocabularyJLPT N4 · core

出張

しゅっちょう

hepburn shucchou

business trip

Part of speech · noun / suru-verb

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Examples

来週、大阪へ出張します。
I am going on a business trip to Osaka next week.
部長は今、出張中です。
The department head is on a business trip right now.

Collocations

出張する出張に行く出張中海外出張出張先

Mnemonic

出張 shucchou — 出 (to go out) + 張 (to stretch, to extend). To leave the workplace and extend one's work somewhere far — a business trip. A suru-verb. 出 (shutsu) + 張 (chou) contract into しゅっちょう with a geminate sound.

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Why do 出 + 張 become しゅっちょう?