一位 – Vocabulary details

一いち位い

Noun

Usually written in kana

1. first place; first rank

2. units position (of a number)

one

rank

い

ちい

one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start

rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts

first place

first rank in the hierarchy of the government; highest rank given to a shrine

yew (Taxus baccata); English yew; European yew

みんなが驚おどろいたことに、マイクはスピーチコンテストで一いち位いを取とった。

To everyone's astonishment, Mike won first prize in the speech contest.

彼かれの運うんの良よさや自じ身しんの努ど力りょくで、コンテストでは一いち位いを獲かく得とくした。

What with good fortune, and his own effort, he won the first prize in the contest.

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