Illustration: At a neighborhood flower shop, a customer speaks a recipient's name while a clerk carefully forms it on a small message card. The card lies inside a folded holder angled toward the clerk, concealing its written face while leaving the pen's contact and deliberate hand movement visible.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

表ひょう記き

hyouki

to write, to represent in writing

Example sentences

  1. 日本語にほんごの難むずかしい点てんは文字もじを使つかった表記ひょうきの仕方しかたです。

    What is difficult about Japanese is how characters are used in its writing system.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この表記ひょうきは間違まちがっている。

    This representation is wrong.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. その他たにもさまざまな表記ひょうきがある。

    It can also be written various other ways.

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

Kanji in 表記

  • 表surface; tableOnヒョウKunおもて・あらわす・あらわれる
  • 記scribe; accountOnキKunしるす

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