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    3. 自伝

    自伝

    自じ伝でん

    autobiography

    KMT6News #14+1NounLiteratureKanji Vocab12 strokes

    じでん

    Noun

    1.
    autobiography

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    彼かれは有ゆう名めいな作さっ家かの自じ伝でんを読よんだ。

    He read the autobiography of a famous writer.

    KMT5Literature
    彼かの女じょは自じ分ぶんの人じん生せいを自じ伝でんとして書かき残のこした。

    She wrote down her life as an autobiography.

    KMT6Literature
    この自じ伝でんは、20世せい紀きの激げき動どうの時じ代だいを生いきた女じょ性せいの物ものが語たりだ。

    This autobiography is the story of a woman who lived through the turbulent 20th century.

    KMT7LiteratureHistory
    多おおくの読どく者しゃが、その感かん動どう的てきな自じ伝でんに涙なみだした。

    Many readers shed tears over that moving autobiography.

    KMT7LiteratureEmotions & Psychology
    彼かれの自じ伝でんは、成せい功こうの裏うらに隠かくされた苦く悩のうを赤せ裸きら々らに語かたっている。

    His autobiography candidly tells of the struggles hidden behind his success.

    KMT8LiteratureEmotions & Psychology

    Kanji that make up this word

    自
    みずか.ら・おの.ずから・おの.ずと…(3)
    oneself
    伝
    つた.わる・つた.える・つた.う・つだ.う・-づた.い・つて…(3)
    transmit・go along・walk along・follow・report…(3)
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