First opened Friday, October 9, 2026

描写

びょうしゃ

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

depiction, description, portrayal

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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彼(かれ)は地震(じしん)の後(あと)の混乱(こんらん)を生々(なまなま)しく描写(びょうしゃ)した。
He vividly depicted the confusion following the earthquake.
Tatoeba #102225, translation #301469
彼(かれ)はそこで起(お)きたことを正確(せいかく)に描写(びょうしゃ)した。
He accurately described what happened there.
Tatoeba #113251, translation #290423

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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.

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