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Sample Sentence with 機密

機密 (kimitsu: secrecy; highly classified information)     occasion + secret

彼の秘書が機密情報は一切漏らしてないと明言した。
Kare no hisho ga kimitsu jōhō wa issai morashitenai to meigen shita.
His secretary flatly denied leaking any confidential information.

(kare: he)
秘書 (hisho: (private) secretary)
     to keep secret + writing

Look! Secrets have led us back to secretaries!

情報 (jōhō: information)     actual facts + information
一切 (issai: all; absolutely)     one + everything

Although we usually see as “to cut,” in this case it means “everything,” says Halpern. Another interesting point about this compound: with one hiragana trailing after it, the yomi and meaning change entirely. That is, 一切れ (hitokire) refers to “one piece,” as in a piece of cake or bread. That’s because -切れ (-kire) is a suffix for slices or strips.


(mo(rasu): to let leak, reveal)

I love all the water imagery (the water radical, picture-1.png, plus the rain, ) in a word about leaking! I’m just slightly disturbed that the buttocks radical has shown up, too! I’d rather not think about that in this context! But how can I not, when I pronounce morasu and realize what it sounds like?! Oh, wait, Henshall to the rescue. He says that although can indeed mean “buttocks,” it can also mean “corpse.” So the corpse is leaking?! No, no, he says that in , the component in question acts as a simplification of “building,” . So the building is leaking, not the buttocks! Whew! We’re safely out of that morass!

明言 (meigen: declaration, statement)     clear + to speak

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