Illustration: At the kitchen table, an older woman carefully draws a folded sheet of correspondence paper from a freshly opened envelope. The sheet's blank reverse faces outward, while its message side faces her. Her expression softens into a broad, private smile as she unfolds it.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

手て紙がみ

tegami

letter

Example sentences

  1. 君きみあての手紙てがみだよ。

    Here is a letter for you.

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  2. 手紙てがみ書かいてね。

    Write me sometime, OK?

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  3. 彼かれは手紙てがみを書かいた。

    He wrote a letter.

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Kanji in 手紙

  • 手handOnシュ・ズKunて・て-・た-
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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