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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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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

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Coordinated Universal Time is 9 hours behind Japan Standard Time.

Kanji

協co-, cooperation
定determine, fix, establish
世generation, world, society
界world, boundary
時time, hour

Related 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'.