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    3. 絶筆

    絶筆

    絶ぜっ筆ぴつ

    one's last (piece of) writing

    KMT10News #47+1NounLiteratureKanji Vocab24 strokes

    ぜっぴつ

    Noun

    1.
    one's last (piece of) writing, last work
    2.
    ceasing to write, giving up writing

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    これは彼かれの絶ぜっ筆ぴつです。

    This is his last work.

    KMT5Literature
    その小しょう説せつは、作さっ家かの絶ぜっ筆ぴつとして後こう世せいに語かたり継つがれています。

    That novel is handed down to future generations as the author's last work.

    KMT8LiteratureHistory
    彼かれは病びょう床しょうで、これが絶ぜっ筆ぴつとなることを覚かく悟ごしながら、最さい後ごの詩しを書かき上あげた。

    On his sickbed, he finished writing his last poem, prepared for it to be his final work.

    KMT9LiteratureEmotions & Psychology
    多おおくの研けん究きゅう者しゃが、その未み完かんの絶ぜっ筆ぴつに込こめられた作さく者しゃの意い図とを解かい明めいしようと試こころみている。

    Many researchers are trying to elucidate the author's intentions contained in that unfinished last work.

    KMT9LiteratureEducation
    画が家かは、自じ身しんの生しょう涯がいを振ふり返かえるかのように、絶ぜっ筆ぴつとなるであろう風ふう景けい画がを描えがき続つづけた。

    The painter continued to draw a landscape painting, which would likely be his last work, as if reflecting on his own life.

    KMT9Art & DesignLiteratureEmotions & Psychology

    Kanji that make up this word

    絶
    た.える・た.やす・た.つ…(1)
    discontinue・sever・cut off・abstain・interrupt…(5)
    筆
    ふで…(2)
    writing brush・writing・painting brush・handwriting
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