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    3. 聞き書き

    聞き書き

    聞きき​書がき​

    writing down what one hears

    KMT8News #19+1Noun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveLiteratureKanji Vocab32 strokes

    聞書き聞き書聞書

    ききがき

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    writing down what one hears, account of what one hears

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    先せん生せいの話はなしを聞きき書がきしました。

    I took notes on what the teacher said.

    KMT6Education
    彼かれは民みん話わの聞きき書がきをライフワークとしています。

    He makes it his life's work to record folk tales.

    KMT8LiteratureCulture & Traditions
    作さっ家かは、取しゅ材ざいした人ひと々びとの言こと葉ばを聞きき書がきして作さく品ひんを完かん成せいさせました。

    The author completed the work by transcribing the words of the people he interviewed.

    KMT8LiteratureWork & Career
    その聞きき書がきは、当とう時じの人ひと々びとの生せい活かつを鮮あざやかに伝 えています。

    That oral history vividly conveys the lives of people at that time.

    KMT9LiteratureHistory
    地ち域いきに残のこる伝でん説せつは、口こう頭とう伝でん承しょうと聞きき書がきによって現げん代だいに伝つたえられてきました。

    Legends remaining in the region have been passed down to the present day through oral tradition and written accounts.

    KMT9Culture & TraditionsHistoryLiterature

    Characters that make up this word

    聞
    き.く・き.こえる…(2)
    hear・ask・listen
    Kanji
    書
    か.く・-が.き・-がき…(2)
    write
    Kanji
    き
    ki
    Kana
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