Illustration: Outside a Japanese apartment entrance, two children hook their little fingers together while looking directly at each other with solemn concentration. One child holds a borrowed toy robot carefully against their chest; its open storage box rests in the other child's arm.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

約やく束そく

yakusoku

promise

Example sentences

約束やくそくを破やぶらないでよ。
Don’t go back on your promise.
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彼かれは売うると約束やくそくした。
He promised to sell.
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約束やくそくは約束やくそく。
A promise is a promise.
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Kanji in 約束

約promise; approximatelyOnヤクKunつづまる・つづめる・つづまやか
束bundle; sheafOnソクKunたば・たばねる・つか

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