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発言 (はつげん): utterance, speech, proposal — Japanese vocabulary

発言 is read はつげん and means "utterance, speech, proposal". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

発言

Reading
はつげん · hatsugen
Translation
utterance, speech, proposal
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
はつげんが

Example

彼の発言は逆効果になった。

かれのはつげんはぎゃくこうかになった。

His remarks had the opposite effect.

Kanji in this word

  • 発 — depart, emit
  • 言 — say, word

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