Illustration: Inside a quiet Japanese jewelry shop, a customer faces a tiny pearl pendant resting in an open velvet case. On the counter beside it, the customer has laid out a comically substantial spread of banknotes and emptied a wallet that now hangs slack in one hand.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

高こう価か

kouka

expensive

Example sentences

  1. そんな高価こうかな本ほんは買かえないよ。

    I can’t buy a book this expensive.

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  2. 彼女かのじょは高価こうかな首飾くびかざりをしています。

    She is wearing an expensive necklace.

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  3. 私わたしには高価こうかな車くるまを買かう余裕よゆうがない。

    I can’t afford to buy an expensive car.

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Kanji in 高価

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 価value; priceOnカ・ケKunあたい

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