Illustration: Around a university seminar table, a historian, a literature researcher, and a theatre scholar examine a small collection of cultural materials. Closed clothbound books sit beside a reproduction of an old illustrated handscroll and a carefully supported theatrical mask.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

人じん文ぶん科か学がく

jinbunkagaku

humanities

It refers to the humanities, not social sciences. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 歴史学れきしがくは人文科学じんぶんかがくの一部門いちぶもんである。

    History is a branch of the humanities.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 哲学研究てつがくけんきゅうは人文科学じんぶんかがくの１つだ。

    The study of philosophy belongs to the humanities.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 第だい2次世界大戦後じせかいたいせんごには、これまでの和書わしょ・漢籍かんせき・洋書ようしょを改あらためて人文科学じんぶんかがく・社会科学しゃかいかがく・自然科学しぜんかがくの3分野ぶんやとして各界かくかいの権威者けんいしゃを招まねくようになった。

    After World War II, the former categories of Japanese, Chinese, and Western books were replaced by three fields—the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences—and leading figures from various fields began to be invited.

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

Kanji in 人文科学

  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと
  • 文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや
  • 科department; courseOnカ
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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