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虚構きょこう (kyokou)

fabrication; fiction

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Meaning

虚構 (きょこう, kyokou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “fabrication; fiction”.

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Example sentences 8

彼かれの話はなしは全すべて虚構きょこうでした

Everything he said was untrue.

彼の話はまったくの虚構だ.

His account is complete fiction [is totally fictitious].

君は虚構の世界に住んでいるんだ.

You live in a make‐believe world.

詳細は聖徳太子虚構説の節を参照。

For further details, see the section "Opinion about Shotoku Taishi as a fictitious figure."

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