Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese living room, a child follows a passage in an open book with the left index finger while carefully copying it into a notebook with the right hand. The child’s eyes move toward the book, and the pencil is poised midway through a deliberate stroke.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

読よみ書かき

yomikaki

reading and writing

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは読よみ書かきができる。

    He can read and write.

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  2. 彼女かのじょは読よみ書かきを教おしえている。

    She teaches reading and writing.

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  3. 息子むすこはまだ読よみ書かきができないんだ。

    My son can neither read nor write yet.

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Kanji in 読書

  • 読readOnドク・トク・トウKunよむ
  • 書writeOnショKunかく

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