につき details
owing to N; per N (formal, written)
本日は臨時休業につき、ご了承ください。
honjitsu wa rinji kyuugyou ni tsuki, go ryoushou kudasai.
We are temporarily closed today; thank you for your understanding. formal
駐車料金は一時間につき300円です。
chuusha ryoukin wa ichijikan ni tsuki sanbyaku en desu.
Parking costs 300 yen per hour. neutral
- formal
Examples
owing to; due to — a formal written cause, typically on signs, notices, or announcements
本日は臨時休業につき、ご了承ください。
honjitsu wa rinji kyuugyou ni tsuki, go ryoushou kudasai.
We are temporarily closed today; thank you for your understanding. formal
工事中につき、この先通行止めとなっております。
koujichuu ni tsuki, kono saki tsuukoudome to natte orimasu.
Due to construction work, the road ahead is closed to traffic. formal
per; each — a distributive rate, typically in pricing or fee notices
駐車料金は一時間につき300円です。
chuusha ryoukin wa ichijikan ni tsuki sanbyaku en desu.
Parking costs 300 yen per hour. neutral
参加費は、お一人様につき2000円頂戴しております。
sankahi wa, ohitorisama ni tsuki nisen en choudai shite orimasu.
We charge a participation fee of 2000 yen per person. formal
Formation
{N}につきattaches to noun
Variant notes
- につきましては — keigo extension used in business correspondence, functioning like a formal について — 先日の件につきましては、改めてご連絡いたします "as for the other day's matter, we will contact you again"; the bare causal/distributive につき does not carry this topic-marking sense on its own.
Notes
Related patterns
Similar
In their shared distributive "per" sense, につき reads as a bookish rate-marker confined to pricing and fee notices (一名につき500円) — につき's more common sense is actually causal ("due to X"), not this one — while ごとに is the general-purpose "every/each" word for either sense and also attaches to verbs (客が来るごとに); につき never takes a verb the way ごとに does.
Lookalikes
につき can extend to につきましては in keigo business correspondence, where it works like a formal について ("regarding this matter"), but につき's own core meaning is causal ("due to X") or distributive ("per X") — a bare Xにつき carries a meaning について never does, so treating the two as always interchangeable is wrong outside that one fixed keigo extension.