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展覧会
てんらんかい
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exhibition
Tenrankai is 展覧 (tenran, “exhibition”) plus 会 (-kai, “gathering”).
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In a sentence
美術展覧会に行きましたか。
Did you go to the art exhibition?
私たちは毎年展覧会を開く。
We hold an exhibition every year.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “展覧(てんらん) (tenran, “exhibition”) + 会(かい) (-kai, “gathering”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 展覧会 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.