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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

異い変へん

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unusual occurrence

Example sentences

  1. 天文てんもん異変いへんとは、普段ふだんでは見みられない天文現象てんもんげんしょうの事ことを指さす。

    Extraordinary astronomical events are astronomical phenomena which are seen only rarely.

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

  2. 菅原道真すがわらみちざねの死後しご、京きょうには異変いへんが相次あいつぎ、醍醐天皇だいごてんのうの皇子おうじが次々つぎつぎに病死びょうしした。

    After SUGAWARA no Michizane died, many strange events occurred in Kyoto, and Emperor Daigo’s sons died of illness one after another.

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

  3. この為ため、地方ちほうによっては普段腐ふだんくさることがない梅干うめぼしが腐くさるため、何なんらかの異変いへんが起おきると言いう迷信めいしんが伝つたえられている所ところもある。

    Consequently, in some regions the superstition has emerged that something unusual will happen when umeboshi, which usually don’t go bad, begin to rot.

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

Kanji in 異変

  • 異uncommon; differentOnイKunこと・ことなる・け
  • 変unusual; changeOnヘンKunかわる・かわり・かえる

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