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JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ変へん

fuhen

unchanging, permanent

Example sentences

  1. ある人物じんぶつが不変ふへんの性質せいしつで全人生ぜんじんせいを貫つらぬくということは小説しょうせつの中なかだけの話はなしだ。

    Only in novels do you find individuals who live out their whole life with unvarying character.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 古代こだいからこの国くににおいて不変ふへんと考かんがえられる事象じしょうを示しめして呼よぶことが多おおい。

    This term has been often used as a word indicating phenomena considered to be unchanged in this country since ancient times.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 伊藤博文いとうひろぶみは、皇位継承こういけいしょうにおける万世ばんせい不変ふへんの原則げんそくとして、万世一系ばんせいいっけいを以下いかのように定義ていぎしている。

    The following is Hirobumi ITO’s definition of the unbroken Imperial line as the unbroken rules of Imperial succession.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 不変

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 変unusual; changeOnヘンKunかわる・かわり・かえる

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