きょうちょう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. emphasis; stress; highlighting; underlining; underscoring
Emphasize what you can do.
2. accentuating (a feature or certain part); accenting
The black frame accentuates the colors of the painting.
Noun
Finance
3. strong tone (of the market); firm tone
Pitch accent
きょ
うちょう
Composed of
a little over; a little more than; strength; the strong; powerhouse; one of the biggest
key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; meter (of a poem); metre; style
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
emphatic (sentence) construction
Examples (21 in total)
Emphasize what you can do.
Teresa emphasizes this repeatedly.
Let me emphasise just this.
He emphasized the importance of peace.
Makeup that accentuates the eyes is in fashion.
Yumiko has a push-up bra, emphasising her cleavage.
He stresses the word "power".
I want to emphasize this point in particular.
The teacher stressed the importance of daily practice.
The black frame accentuates the colors of the painting.
Our English teacher put emphasis on pronunciation.
The teacher emphasized the importance of education.
He put great emphasis on this point.
She stressed that she did it by herself.
This point deserves special emphasis.
The teacher stressed the importance of taking notes.
I would like to emphasize the Confucian values that exist within this group.
Even in the middle of the explanation, he was repeatedly emphasizing that it was his fault.
What I especially wanted to highlight was the exchange program we held at the school.
In a collectivist society, the desires of a group are emphasized more than the desires of an individual.
He emphasized that tens of thousands of people would come to that concert.