Illustration: Inside an empty concrete pedestrian tunnel beneath a Japanese railway embankment, a child has just clapped once and now holds both hands apart and still. Curved sound traces travel toward the hard walls and return toward him, without lettering.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

反はん響きょう

hankyou

to echo, to reverberate

Example sentences

  1. 話はなし声ごえが壁かべに反響はんきょうしてうるさいな、この部屋へや。

    This room is noisy. The sound bounces right off the walls.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その時ときの音おとが瓶びんの中なかで反響はんきょうし琴きんの音おとのような音おととなる。

    The sound at that time echoes in the bottle and sounds like a harp.

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

  3. 特定とくていの場所ばしょで手てを打うつと反響はんきょうするため鳴なき龍りゅうと呼よばれる。

    It is called a “singing dragon” because clapping your hands at a particular spot produces an echo.

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

Kanji in 反響

  • 反anti-Onハン・ホン・タンKunそる・そらす・かえす
  • 響echo; resoundOnキョウKunひびく

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