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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

漢かん語ご

kango

Sino-Japanese word

Example sentences

  1. 漢語かんごはもともと外来語がいらいごです。

    Kanji compounds are originally loanwords.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 古代こだいに語彙面ごいめんで中国語ちゅうごくごの大おおきな影響えいきょうを受うけ、漢語かんごが大量たいりょうに入はいり込こんだ。

    Chinese had a great effect on the Japanese language in terms of vocabulary, as many words were taken from Chinese.

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

  3. 『万国公法ばんこくこうほう』は多おおくの新しん漢語かんごを日本にっぽんにもたらした。

    "Bankoku Koho" brought a lot of new words of Chinese origin to Japan.

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

Kanji in 漢語

  • 漢China; ChineseOnカン
  • 語word; speechOnゴKunかたる・かたらう

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