Illustration: In a rented neighborhood meeting room, a visiting Christian missionary sits at the same level as several curious local residents. She points between a small wooden cross and an unlettered illustration of Jesus teaching a gathered crowd, explaining with an open hand.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

宣せん教きょう

senkyou

religious mission

Example sentences

  1. また16世紀半せいきなかばにはポルトガルの宣教せんきょう者しゃが日本にっぽんに到来とうらいした。

    In addition, Portuguese missionaries came to Japan at the middle of the 16th century.

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

  2. 同地どうちにおいて日本にっぽん宣教せんきょうへ向むかう直前ちょくぜんのフランシスコ・ザビエルと日本人協力者にっぽんじんきょうりょくしゃヤジロウに出会であう。

    Goa was where he met Francis Xavier, who was just about leaving for a mission to Japan, and his Japanese collaborator Yajiro.

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

  3. パリ外国がいこく宣教せんきょう会会員かいかいいんとして幕末ばくまつの日本にっぽんを訪おとずれ、後半生こうはんせいを日本にっぽんの布教ふきょうにささげた。

    He visited Japan in the final years of the Edo period as a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and devoted the latter half of his life to missionary work there.

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

Kanji in 宣教

  • 宣proclaim; sayOnセンKunのたまう
  • 教teach; faithOnキョウKunおしえる・おそわる

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