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存在

存在

Chinese

 
exist; deposit; store; keep; survive
 
(located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing
simp. and trad.
(存在)

Verb

存在

  1. to exist

Noun

存在

  1. existence

Japanese

Kanji in this term
そん
Grade: 6
ざい
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Noun

存在 (hiragana そんざい, romaji sonzai)

  1. existence
     (わたし) (かみ)存在 (そんざい) (しん)じない。
    Watashi wa kami no sonzai o shinjinai.
    I don't believe God exists.
     (かれ)存在 (そんざい)は、我々 (われわれ) (おお)きな (たす)けとなるでしょう。
    Kare no sonzai wa, wareware ni ōkina tasuke to naru deshō.
    His presence will be a big help to us.
     (かれ)はようやく存在 (そんざい) (みと)められた。
    Kare wa yōyaku sonzai o mitomerareta.
    He finally won recognition.

Verb

存在する (hiragana そんざいする, romaji sonzai suru)

  1. exist
     (かみ)存在 (そんざい)するとは (おも)いません。
    Kami ga sonzai suru to wa omoimasen.
    I don't believe God exists.
     (かみ)存在 (そんざい)する。
    Kami wa sonzai suru.
    God exists.

Conjugation

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

存在 (jonjae) (hangeul 존재)

  1. Hanja form? of 존재, “existence”.