Illustration: A factory neighborhood is undergoing several disruptive changes at once. Workers emerge through a closing factory gate carrying personal toolboxes, while a family loads household belongings into a small moving van outside the company housing.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

激げき動どう

gekidou

turmoil, upheaval

Example sentences

  1. 父ちちフアンはこの激動げきどうの中なかで世よを去さった。

    His father Juan passed away in the midst of this turmoil.

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  2. 大正時代たいしょうじだいは、明治めいじと昭和しょうわにはさまれ15年ねんと短みじかいながらも、国内外こくないがいが激動げきどうの時代じだいであった。

    Although it lasted only for 15 years between Meiji and Showa periods, Taisho period saw dynamic changes both within and outside of the country.

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

  3. 激動げきどうの幕末ばくまつにあって、静寂せいじゃくの極致きょくちのような茶室ちゃしつでの心こころを、時ときの為政者いせいしゃである直弼なおすけが残のこしていることは興味深きょうみぶかく後世こうせいにおける本書ほんしょの魅力みりょくとなっている。

    It is quite interesting that Ii, a statesman at the time of political turmoil at the end of Tokugawa Shogunate, wrote a book advocating absolute stillness during a tea ceremony, which continues to make the book attractive to people throughout the ages.

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

Kanji in 激動

  • 激violent; get excitedOnゲキKunはげしい
  • 動move; motionOnドウKunうごく・うごかす

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