No. 173 in Japanese
限定
"Limited" or "exclusive."
In a sentence
この店では、週末限定のランチメニューがあります。
In this store, there is a weekend-exclusive lunch menu.
The word '限定' is used here to indicate that the lunch menu is available only during the weekend, emphasizing exclusivity and temporal limitation.
この特別な割引は今月末まで限定です。
This special discount is limited until the end of this month.
Here, '限定' indicates that the discount is temporally restricted to the end of the month.
会員限定のイベントに参加することができます。
You can attend the members-only event.
In this sentence, '限定' is used to specify that the event is exclusively accessible to members.
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