Illustration: In the storage room of a Japanese neighbourhood shop, a precarious stack of heavy ceramic bowls tilts from an overloaded shelf above a worker crouching to retrieve a dustpan. The top bowls have begun to slide, their weight pulling the entire stack toward the shelf edge.

JLPT N4na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

危き険けん

kiken

dangerous

Example sentences

  1. その川かわは危険きけんだ。

    The river is dangerous.

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  2. 地震じしんの危険きけんはない。

    There is no danger of an earthquake.

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  3. 火ひは常つねに危険きけんだ。

    Fire is always dangerous.

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Kanji in 危険

  • 危dangerous; fearOnキKunあぶない・あやうい・あやぶむ
  • 険precipitous; inaccessible placeOnケンKunけわしい

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