Illustration: In a Japanese municipal press room, a spokesperson stands behind several clustered microphones and delivers a prepared statement from papers held with their backs toward the viewer. Two colleagues stand alongside with serious, attentive expressions.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

声せい明めい

seimei

public statement, declaration

Example sentences

  1. 大統領だいとうりょうはその件けんについて声明せいめいを発表はっぴょうした。

    The president made a statement on the issue.

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  2. 政府せいふは次つぎのような声明せいめいを出だした。

    The government issued the following statement.

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  3. その声明せいめいには真実しんじつのかけらもなかった。

    There wasn’t a scrap of truth in the statement.

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Kanji in 声明

  • 声voiceOnセイ・ショウKunこえ・こわ-
  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ

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