Illustration: At a public library craft table, a child presents a handmade picture book featuring an invented creature with a teapot body, rabbit ears, and four tiny wheels. The open pages contain only pictures of this creature visiting equally impossible houses suspended from mushrooms.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

架か空くう

kakuu

imaginary, fictitious

Example sentences

  1. この物語ものがたりの中なかで書かかれているすべての出来事できごとは架空かくうのものです。

    All the events described in this story are imaginary.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. このドラマの登場人物とうじょうじんぶつはすべて架空かくうのものです。

    All the characters in this drama are fictitious.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 君きみはネッシーなんて架空かくうの存在そんざいだと言いうが、僕ぼくはいると思おもうよ。

    You say Nessie is an imaginary being, but I think she exists.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 架空

  • 架erect; frameOnカKunかける・かかる
  • 空empty; skyOnクウKunそら・あく・あき

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