No. 1,066 in Japanese
抽選
Lottery or drawing.
In a sentence
コンテストの参加者は抽選によって選ばれます。
The participants of the contest are selected through a lottery.
In this sentence, '抽選' is used to refer to the method of selecting participants by lottery or draw.
抽選で当選した商品が届きました。
The item I won in the lottery arrived.
Here, '抽選' is used to indicate the lottery or drawing process through which the item was won.
イベントの入場券を抽選で配布しました。
The admission tickets for the event were distributed by lottery.
In this sentence, '抽選' is used to describe the allocation of event tickets through a drawing process.
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