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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

元げん凶きょう

genkyou

main cause, source

Example sentences

  1. 悪あくの元凶げんきょう

    the root cause of evil

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. この事ことが後世こうせいの米沢藩よねざわはんの財政難ざいせいなんの元凶げんきょうになっている。

    This became the main cause of the financial difficulties of the later Yonezawa domain.

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

  3. このような抗争こうそうが「お家騒動いえそうどう」の元凶げんきょうとなり、最悪さいあくの場合ばあい、改易かいえきにまで至いたることがあった。

    Such conflicts became the main cause of family feuds and, in the worst cases, even led to the abolition of a clan’s status.

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

Kanji in 元凶

  • 元beginning; former timeOnゲン・ガンKunもと
  • 凶villain; evilOnキョウ

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