緊張

きんちょう
tension, mental strain, nervousness

Reading

Readingきんちょう
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji緊張

Meanings

  1. tension
  2. mental strain
  3. nervousness
  1. strainn.vs.vi.
  2. stress
  3. tensions (between countries, groups, etc.)n.vs.vi.
  4. tonusn.physiol
  5. muscle tone

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

緊張がこちらにも伝わってくる
きんちょうがこちらにもつたわってくるThe tension reaches me too.
緊張した顔つきでバッターは打席に入る
きんちょうしたかおつきでばったーはだせきにはいるWith a tense look, the batter enters the batter's box.
初めての試合で緊張からか浮き足立っていた
はじめてのしあいできんちょうからかうきあしだっていたPerhaps from nerves, he was jittery in his first match.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 緊張

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked