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.