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JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

文ぶん系けい

bunkei

humanities, social sciences

Example sentences

  1. お前まえは文系ぶんけいの方ほうが合あってるよ。理系りけいは向むいてないと思おもう。

    You would fit in well with those in humanities. But I don’t think you are so well suited to the sciences.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. たとえばB群ぐんには文系ぶんけい学生向がくせいむけの数学すうがくの講義こうぎが含ふくまれるが、これを理系学部りけいがくぶの学生がくせいが履修りしゅうしても単位たんいとして認みとめられない。

    For example, in Group B, there is a course of mathematics for students majoring in humanities, but this course is unacceptable as credits for students majoring in science.

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

  3. この大学だいがくは文系ぶんけいの学部がくぶが多おおい。

    This university has a lot of humanities and social science departments.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 文系

  • 文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや
  • 系lineage; systemOnケイ

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