Illustration: Outside a Japanese school after a graduation ceremony, a family gathers to take a formal photograph of a teenager in a neatly buttoned school uniform. The graduate holds a closed diploma tube and a small bouquet while a parent carefully straightens the graduation corsage.

JLPT N3suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

記き念ねん

kinen

to commemorate, to celebrate

Example sentences

  1. 図書館としょかんはその学者がくしゃを記念きねんして建たてられた。

    The library was founded in memory of the scholar.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 今日きょうの式典しきてんは、わが校こうの100周年しゅうねんを記念きねんするものです。

    Today’s ceremony marks the 100th anniversary of our school.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 行事ぎょうじを記念きねんしてパレードが行おこなわれた。

    There was a parade to mark the occasion.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 記念

  • 記scribe; accountOnキKunしるす
  • 念wish; senseOnネン

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