Word · 単語
本音
Reading ほんね
real intention
real intention · motive · true opinion · what one really thinks
N1
JLPT
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strokes
#5943
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
彼は本音を出した。
He showed what he meant.
社長は言うことと本音が違う。
My boss says one thing and means another.
彼女に望むのは、歯に衣着せないで本音を言って欲しいということだ。
I wish she wouldn't pussyfoot about it and just say what she means.
世界からは【麻疹輸出国】と嫌味とも本音ともとれることをいわれている始末。
Ending up with being called a "measles exporting country" by the rest of the world, something that you could take as insult or truth.