Illustration: In a ceramics studio, a student arranges a row of nearly identical rounded objects on a worktable. Most are small fired porcelain pieces, hard and smooth, but one is a soft cleaning sponge cut to the same shape.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

異い質しつ

ishitsu

different in nature

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらの考かんがえは私わたしたちには全まったく異質いしつのものであるように感かんじられる。

    Their ideas seem totally alien to us.

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  2. 彼かれらの制作活動せいさくかつどうは従来的じゅうらいてきな「画家がか」のそれとは全まったく異質いしつなものであった。

    Their production activities are totally different from the activities of traditional 'artists.'

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

  3. これは他たの作品さくひんとはやや異質いしつな感かんがある。

    This feels somewhat different from the other works.

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

Kanji in 異質

  • 異uncommon; differentOnイKunこと・ことなる・け
  • 質substance; qualityOnシツ・シチ・チKunたち・ただす・もと

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