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JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

卑ひ怯きょう

hikyou

unfair, sneaky

Example sentences

  1. そんなふうに言いうなんて卑怯ひきょうだ。

    It’s mean of you to talk that way.

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  2. 卑怯ひきょうな手段しゅだんにいらつく。

    Underhandedness really gets on my nerves.

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  3. この意識いしきは少すくなくとも室町末期むろまちまっきごろまで続つづき、後世こうせいに言いわれるような「裏切うらぎりは卑怯ひきょう」「主君しゅくんと生死せいしを共ともにするのが武士ぶし」といった考かんがえ方かたは当時とうじは主流しゅりゅうではなかった。

    This attitude persisted until at least around the end of the Muromachi period. Ideas later expressed as “betrayal is underhanded” and “a warrior should share his lord’s fate in life and death” were not mainstream at the time.

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

Kanji in 卑怯

  • 卑lowly; baseOnヒKunいやしい・いやしむ・いやしめる
  • 怯cowardice; winceOnキョウ・コウKunひるむ・おびえる・おじる

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