言葉ことば (kakikotoba)

written language

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Meaning

書き言葉 (かきことば, kakikotoba) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “written language”.

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Example sentences 8

言葉ことばはな言葉ことばはだいぶ ちがうことがあります。

Written language and spoken language are quite different sometimes.

スペイン の 書き言葉かきことばは、ほんのいくらかわかるが、スペイン の 話し言葉はなしことばときたら、ちんぷんかんぷんだ。

I can understand written Spanish just a little but spoken Spanish is Greek to me.

その結果、明治末になるとそれらは書き言葉として次第に確立し、一般の文章にも大きな影響を与えるようになった。

As a result, in the late Meiji period they gradually became established as the written language, and came to greatly influence Japanese general writing.

中世には現在の日本語の書き言葉の原型となる和漢混淆文が成立し、日本語は漢語と和語を織り交ぜた自在な表現力を得た。

In medieval times, a mixture of Japanese and Chinese writing, which became the basis of today's written Japanese language, was established, giving Japanese flexible powers of expression with its mix of kango (words of Chinese origin) and Wago (words of Japanese origin).