Illustration: In a busy Japanese news bureau, a rain-soaked photographer has just delivered pictures of a river overflowing its embankment.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

通つう信しん社しゃ

tsuushinsha

news agency

Example sentences

  1. 稔彦王なるひこおうは、滞在中たいざいちゅうのロンドンのホテルで通信社つうしんしゃからの連絡れんらくでこの事故じこを知しり、翌日よくじつフランスへ戻もどり、現地げんちで成久王なりひさおうの遺体いたいと対面たいめんした。

    Prince Naruhiko learned of the accident from a news agency while staying at a hotel in London. He returned to France the next day and saw Prince Naruhisa’s body there.

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  2. 姉あねは通信社つうしんしゃで働はたらいている。

    My older sister works for a news agency.

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  3. その記事きじは通信社つうしんしゃが配信はいしんした。

    A news agency distributed that article.

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Kanji in 通信社

  • 通traffic; pass throughOnツウ・ツKunとおる・とおり・とおす
  • 信faith; truthOnシン
  • 社company; shrineOnシャKunやしろ

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