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Breakdown of the Kanji #3

あの大学は私の第1志望だった。
Ano daigaku wa watashi no dai-ichi shibō datta.
That university was my first choice.

大学 (daigaku: university)     important + educational institution
(watashi: I, me)
(dai-ichi: number 1, first)

As you may know, is a prefix for ordinal numbers.

志望 (shibō: wish, desire, ambition)     ambition + to aspire

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