Illustration: In a Japanese community hall, an elderly hobbyist pulls the last protective cloth away from an elaborate model railway. The entire miniature landscape is now exposed: a station, looping tracks, a mountain tunnel, a river bridge, and a tiny residential district all connected into one coherent system.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

全ぜん貌ぼう

zenbou

full picture, whole story

Example sentences

  1. 犯罪はんざいの全貌ぜんぼうはまだ明あきらかになっていない。

    We do not yet know everything about the crime.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 全貌ぜんぼうを聞ききたい。

    I want to hear the whole story.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 吉野ヶ里遺跡の遺構からは、大規模な環濠集落の全貌が明らかにされた。

    The full picture of a large scale moat settlement was revealed from the remains at the Yoshinogari site.

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

Kanji in 全貌

  • 全whole; entireOnゼンKunまったく・すべて
  • 貌form; appearanceOnボウ・バクKunかたち・かたどる

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