期間

きかん
period, term

Reading

Readingきかん
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji期間

Meanings

  1. period
  2. term
  1. intervaln.

Synonyms

ピリオド

Homonyms

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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.

野党の主張が通り、消費税は期間限定で減税の方針となる。
やとうのしゅちょうがとおり、しょうひぜいはきかんげんていでげんぜいのほうしんとなる。The opposition's argument won, and consumption tax will be temporarily reduced.
先だって、ごく短期間だが、久方ぶりに、ヨーロッパへ行った。
せんだって、ごくたんきかんだが、ひさかたぶりに、よーろっぱへいった。The other day I went to Europe for the first time in ages, if only for a very short while.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 期間

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