ぶんめい
Meanings
Noun
1. civilization; civilisation; culture
It was humans who supported the civilization of that time.
2. Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
Pitch accent
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んめい
Composed of
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
material civilization; material civilisation
ancient civilization; ancient civilisation
civilized person; civilized people
modern convenience; convenience of civilized life; blessings of civilization
civilized society; civilised society
civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)
technical civilization; technical civilisation
modern civilization; modern civilisation
Western civilization; Western civilisation
civilized world; civilised world
modern civilization; modern world
Mesopotamian civilization
Egyptian civilization (civilisation)
history of civilization
megalithic civilization; megalithic culture
Aztec civilization
Western civilization; Western civilisation
civilized world; civilised world
Indus (valley) civilization (civilisation)
Yellow River civilization; Huang civilization; cradle of Chinese civilization
the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)
Aegean civilization (civilisation)
clash of civilizations
the Bunmeikan Theater
indistinct; obscure
Japan Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations; JSCSC
Examples (21 in total)
Love is the miracle of civilization.
Civilization stopped advancing.
The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.