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Zach

これが香港から航空便で送られてきた手紙です。

Sentence Analyzer

これ 香港 から 航空便 送られてきた 手紙 です

English Translation

This is the letter sent from Hong Kong by air mail.

Furigana

これが香港(ほんこん)から航空便(こうくうびん)(おく)られてきた手紙(てがみ)です。

Romanji

Kore ga Honkon kara kōkūbin de okuraretekita tegami desu.

Words

此れ (これ)
this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic); this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group); now; here; I (me); certainly
()
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
香港 (ほんこん、ホンコン)
Hong Kong; Hongkong
から (から)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since
航空便 (こうくうびん)
air mail
(で、にて)
indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.
送る (おくる)
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time); to live one's life; to pass (down the line); to affix okurigana
手紙 (てがみ)
letter
です (です)
be; is

Kanji

Readings: コウ、 キョウ、 か、 かお.り、 かお.る
Meanings: incense, smell, perfume
Readings: コウ、 みなと
Meaning: harbor
Reading: コウ
Meanings: navigate, sail, cruise, fly
Readings: クウ、 そら、 あ.く、 あ.き、 あ.ける、 から、 す.く、 す.かす、 むな.しい
Meanings: empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
便
Readings: ベン、 ビン、 たよ.り
Meanings: convenience, facility, excrement, feces, letter, chance
Readings: ソウ、 おく.る
Meanings: escort, send
Readings: シュ、 ズ、 て、 て-、 -て、 た-
Meaning: hand
Readings: シ、 かみ
Meaning: paper