Illustration: In a neighborhood library's children's corner, a librarian holds open a large picture book toward a semicircle of preschoolers. Its visible spread shows a tiny rabbit in a jacket offering an enormous rice dumpling to a friendly forest giant, with pictures filling the pages.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

童どう話わ

douwa

children’s story, fairy tale

Example sentences

  1. あなたはこの童話どうわを一人ひとりで書かいたのですか。

    Did you write this fairy tale by yourself?

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  2. 彼かれはこの童話どうわをひとりで書かいた。

    He wrote this fairy tale by himself.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. この童話どうわは七歳ななさいの子こが読よむのに十分じゅうぶんやさしい。

    This fairy tale is easy enough for a seven-year-old child to read.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 童話

  • 童juvenile; childOnドウKunわらべ
  • 話tale; talkOnワKunはなす・はなし

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