Illustration: After a university club gathering, a senior member presses a broom into a younger member's hands while pointing insistently at a floor scattered with party litter. The younger member recoils, keeps one palm raised in refusal, and has a backpack already on one shoulder.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

強きょう要よう

kyouyou

to coerce, to force

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしはおじぎを強要きょうようされた。

    I was forced to make a bow.

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  2. 私わたしは強要きょうようには屈くっしません。

    I won’t be coerced.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれは彼女かのじょに説明せつめいを強要きょうようしなかった。

    He didn’t press her for an explanation.

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Kanji in 強要

  • 強strongOnキョウ・ゴウKunつよい・つよまる・つよめる
  • 要need; main pointOnヨウKunいる・かなめ

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