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    3. 虚言

    虚言

    虚きょ言げん

    falsehood

    KMT10News #47+1NounEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab18 strokes

    きょげんきょごん

    Noun

    1.
    falsehood, lie

    Stroke 0 / 18

    Speed1.0x

    彼かれの話はなしは虚きょ言げんだった。

    His story was a lie.

    KMT8Emotions & Psychology
    虚きょ言げん癖へきのある人ひととは、信しん頼らい関かん係けいを築きずくのが難むずかしい。

    It is difficult to build trust with someone who has a habit of lying.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyFamily & Relationships
    彼かれの証しょう言げんは虚きょ言げんであることが判はん明めいし、裁さい判ばんは振ふり出だしに戻もどった。

    His testimony was found to be a falsehood, and the trial went back to square one.

    KMT10Politics & LawEmotions & Psychology
    虚きょ言げんによって人ひとを欺あざむく行こう為いは、倫りん理り的てきに許ゆるされない。

    The act of deceiving people with falsehoods is ethically unacceptable.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyReligion & Philosophy
    虚きょ言げんをテーマにした文ぶん学がく作さく品ひんは、人にん間げんの心こころの闇やみを描えがき出だす。

    Literary works with the theme of falsehoods depict the darkness of the human heart.

    KMT10LiteratureEmotions & Psychology

    Kanji that make up this word

    虚
    むな.しい・うつ.ろ…(2)
    void・emptiness・unpreparedness・crack・fissure…(1)
    言
    い.う・こと…(3)
    say・word
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