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準備
じゅんびする
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prepare
Junbi is ultimately from Middle Chinese 準備, and attested from the early 1800s.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
すべて準備完了。
All systems are go.
明日の準備で忙しい。
I'm busy getting ready for tomorrow.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Ultimately from Middle Chinese 準備 (MC tsywinX|tsywet bijH). Attested from the early 1800s.”
Source: Wiktionary: 準備 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.