VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

新聞

しんぶん

hepburn shinbun

newspaper

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

毎朝新聞を読む。
I read the newspaper every morning.
新聞の一面に大ニュース。
Big news hit the front page.

Collocations

新聞 (shinbun, newspaper)朝刊 (choukan, morning edition)夕刊 (yuukan, evening edition)新聞配達 (shinbun haitatsu, newspaper delivery)日経新聞 (nikkei shinbun, Nikkei)

Mnemonic

Shinbun (新聞) is "newspaper" — a precise Japanese cluster (B + cluster). Kanji "shin (new) + bun (hearing)" = newly heard news. Cluster: (1) choukan and yuukan — national papers print twice daily, 4-5 AM and 2-3 PM door delivery, uniquely Japanese; (2) zenkoku-shi (national papers) — Yomiuri (about 6 million daily, worlds biggest), Asahi, Mainichi, Nikkei, Sankei — political distribution: right Yomiuri and Sankei, middle Mainichi and Nikkei, left Asahi; (3) chihou-shi (regional papers strong in each area); (4) shinbun haitatsu (student-part-time delivery tradition); (5) shinbun orikomi chirashi (insert flyers — 300-500 a week). Korean shinmun is generic; Japans national-regional split plus morning-evening twice-daily has no Korean parallel; Chinese bao-zhi is generic. JLPT N5 plus a Japanese media-precision cultural cluster.

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Core of choukan-yuukan twice-daily system?