Illustration: At a Japanese home’s low table, a child empties a generously packed pencil case before preparing a school bag. Pencils, an eraser, a ruler, scissors, a glue stick, and a small pencil sharpener lie beside plain notebooks.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

文ぶん具ぐ

bungu

stationery

Example sentences

  1. 日本にっぽんへは宋銭そうせん、陶磁器とうじきや絹織物きぬおりもの、書籍しょせきや文具ぶんぐ、香料こうりょうや薬品やくひん、絵画かいがなどの美術品びじゅつひんなどが輸入ゆにゅうされた。

    The Sung currency, ceramics and silk goods, books and stationery, perfume materials and medicines, and fine arts including pictures were imported into Japan.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 新学期しんがっきに向むけて、文具ぶんぐを買かいそろえた。

    I bought stationery for the new school term.

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  3. この店みせはかわいい文具ぶんぐが多おおい。

    This shop has a lot of cute stationery.

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Kanji in 文具

  • 文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや
  • 具tool; utensilOnグKunそなえる・つぶさに

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