Illustration: At a small Japanese neighbourhood temple, a caretaker has just swung a wooden striker into a large hanging bell. In the adjoining courtyard, a gardener pauses with a watering can still tilted, and a seated visitor looks up halfway through peeling a mandarin.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

聞きこえる

kikoeru

to be audible

Example sentences

  1. 妙みょうな音おとが聞きこえた。

    I heard a strange sound.

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  2. 音楽おんがくが聞きこえる。

    I hear music.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 聞きこえませんよ。

    I can’t hear you.

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Kanji in 聞

  • 聞hear; askOnブン・モンKunきく・きこえる

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