Word · 単語
消息
Reading しょうそく
news (from someone)
- 1 news (from someone), letter, contact
- 2 (someone's) whereabouts, (someone's) movements
N1
JLPT
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#8958
frequency
Not started
Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
私はそれ以来彼の消息は聞いていない。
I haven't heard of him since then.
sense 2 · (someone's) whereabouts
それ以来彼らの消息は不明だ。
They have never been heard of since.
それ以来、彼の消息を聞いていない。
He has not been heard of since.
新聞に飛行機が消息を絶ったと書いてあった。
The newspaper said that contact with the plane had been lost.
あの人はアメリカへ立ったまま消息がない。
Nothing has been heard from him since he left for America.