こくはく
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission
The boy was simply listening to that confession.
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
2. professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love
When are you planning to confess your feelings?
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
Christianity
3. profession (of faith)
4. confession (of sins)
Pitch accent
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くはく
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
Confessions of a Mask (1949 novel by Yukio Mishima)
profession of faith
Confessiones (St. Augustine of Hippo); Les Confessions (Rousseau)
Examples (18 in total)
I'm thinking of confessing.
I confessed my sin.
That is the worst confession of love ever!