Illustration: In a neighborhood theater rehearsal room, a performer mimes being trapped inside a small invisible box. Both palms press outward at consistent edges, shoulders draw inward, and one bent knee searches unsuccessfully for space. There is no physical enclosure around her.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

表ひょう現げん

hyougen

expression

Example sentences

泣なく事ことは悲かなしみの表現ひょうげんだ。
Crying is an expression of grief.
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何なんてあいまいな表現ひょうげんだ。
What an ambiguous expression!
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思想しそうは言葉ことばで表現ひょうげんされる。
Thoughts are expressed by means of words.
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Kanji in 表現

表surface; tableOnヒョウKunおもて・あらわす・あらわれる
現present; existingOnゲンKunあらわれる・あらわす・うつつ

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