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協定世界時 (きょうていせかいじ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

協きょう定てい世せ界かい時じ

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Meanings

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noun

Coordinated Universal Time; UTC

Technical term for the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time.

協きょう定てい世せ界かい時じは、日本にほん標ひょう準じゅん時じより9時じ間かん遅おくれている。
Coordinated Universal Time is 9 hours behind Japan Standard Time.

Kanji

co-, cooperation

定determine, fix, establish

世generation, world, society

界world, boundary

時time, hour

Similar words

日本にほん標ひょう準じゅん時じ
Japan Standard Time (JST) is UTC+9, while 協定世界時 is the base UTC.
グリニッジ標ひょう準じゅん時じ
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is often used interchangeably with UTC in casual contexts, but 協定世界時 is the precise technical term.

Etymology

Compound of 協定 (agreement), 世界 (world), and 時 (time), calqued from English 'Coordinated Universal Time'.