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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

責せき務む

sekimu

duty, obligation

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしはあなたが新あたらしい責務せきむをうまくこなせるよう願ねがっています。

    I wish you good luck with your new responsibilities.

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  2. 国学者こくがくしゃの責務せきむは、古典こてんを研究けんきゅうすることによってもとの神道しんとうの純粋じゅんすいさを取とり戻もどすことである。

    The duty of a scholar of Japanese classical literature is to recapture the original purity of Shinto through research of Japanese classics.

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

  3. 伝統工芸士でんとうこうげいしは、その産地固有さんちこゆうの伝統工芸でんとうこうげいの保存ほぞん、技術ぎじゅつ・技法ぎほうの研鑽けんさんに努力どりょくし、その技わざを後世こうせいの代だいに伝つたえるという責務せきむを負おっている。

    The duty of traditional craftsmen is to make efforts for the preservation of endemic traditional crafts, the improvement of their skills and techniques, and the transmission of traditions to posterity.

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

Kanji in 責務

  • 責blame; censureOnセキKunせめる
  • 務task; dutiesOnムKunつとめる

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