Illustration: At a grandmother's home, two adult sisters sit beside their children around a low table. The sisters share a distinctive eyebrow shape and smile, while each child resembles their own parent.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

親しん戚せき

shinseki

relative

Example sentences

  1. あなたは彼かれと親戚しんせきですか。

    Are you related to him?

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  2. 彼かれは彼女かのじょの遠とおい親戚しんせきだ。

    He is a distant relation of hers.

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  3. 彼かれは私わたしの親戚しんせきではない。

    He is no relation to me.

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Kanji in 親戚

  • 親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい
  • 戚grieve; relativesOnソク・セキKunいたむ・うれえる・みうち

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