優秀

Kana: ゆうしゅう

excellent

Example sentence

彼はとても優秀な学生です。

かれはとてもゆうしゅうながくせいです。

He is a very excellent student.

What 優秀 means

優秀 (ゆうしゅう) is an Japanese word meaning “excellent”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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