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Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

余よ興きょう

yokyou

party entertainment

Example sentences

  1. 忘年会ぼうねんかいの余興よきょうで大喜利おおぎりをやることになった。

    It’s been decided that the entertainment for our year-end party will be a question-with-comical-improvised-answer session.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. カラオケは酒席しゅせきの余興よきょうという格好かっこうだった。

    Karaoke was regarded as a side show in bars.

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

  3. 平安時代へいあんじだいになると、宴席えんせきで余興よきょう的てきに行おこなわれるようになった。

    It was performed in the Heian period as entertainment at banquets.

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

Kanji in 余興

  • 余surplus; remainderOnヨKunあまる・あまり・あます
  • 興entertain; reviveOnコウ・キョウKunおこる・おこす

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