大事件

Japanese
Kanji in this term
大 事 件
だい
Grade: 1		 じ
Grade: 3		 けん
Grade: 5
goon kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 大(だい) (dai-, “big, large”) + 事(じ)件(けん) (jiken, “incident”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) だいじ​けん [dàíjíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [da̠iʑikẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

大(だい)事(じ)件(けん) • (daijiken) ←だいじけん (daiziken)?

  1. major incident
    Antonym: 小事件 (shōjiken)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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