Illustration: After a friendly baseball game on a Japanese municipal field, members of two visiting community teams mingle around a picnic table. Their different uniforms remain clearly recognizable, but gloves and bats have been set aside.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

親しん善ぜん

shinzen

goodwill, friendly relations

Example sentences

  1. これからも両国りょうこくの親善しんぜんを深ふかめましょう。

    Let’s continue promoting friendship between our two countries from now on.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 皇室こうしつの儀式ぎしきを担当たんとうする式部副長しきぶふくちょうと国際こくさい親善しんぜんを担当たんとうする式部副長しきぶふくちょうがそれぞれおかれる。

    One Vice-Grand Master of the Ceremonies is in charge of ceremonies in the Imperial Family, and the other Vice-Grand Master of the Ceremonies is in charge of international goodwill.

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

  3. 桜田門外さくらだもんがいの変へんで敵対てきたいした水戸市みとしと彦根市ひこねしが和解わかいして親善しんぜん都市提携としていけいを結むすんだ時期じきは、事件発生じけんはっせいから110年後ねんごの1970年ねんであった。

    In 1970, 110 years after the incident, Mito City and Hikone City, which were kept apart by the Sakuradamongai Incident, reconciled and concluded a friendship city agreement.

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

Kanji in 親善

  • 親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい
  • 善virtuous; goodOnゼンKunよい・いい・よく

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