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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

敬けい遠えん

keien

to avoid, to shy away from

Example sentences

  1. 塩分えんぶんの強つよいおにぎりは敬遠けいえんされる傾向けいこうにある。

    Strongly salted onigiri tends not to be favored.

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

  2. ブラック企業きぎょうは労働者ろうどうしゃから敬遠けいえんされます。

    Exploitative companies are avoided by the workforce.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 人前ひとまえで話はなすようなことは何なにによらず彼かれはいつも敬遠けいえんする。

    He tends to shy away from anything that involves public speaking.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 敬遠

  • 敬awe; respectOnケイ・キョウKunうやまう
  • 遠distant; farOnエン・オンKunとおい

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