記事
きじ
hepburn kiji
article (news), report
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 今朝の新聞でこの記事を読みました。I read this article in this morning's newspaper.
- その事件についての記事が出ました。An article about that incident came out.
Collocations
新聞記事記事を読む記事を書く記事が出る関連記事
Mnemonic
記事 kiji — 記 (to record, to write down) + 事 (matter, affair). A piece of writing that records (記) an event (事) is an article, chiefly in newspapers and magazines. 記 also appears in 日記 (diary, K-67); 事 appears in 事故 (accident, K-67) and 事実 (fact, K-76). 新聞記事 = a newspaper article.
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