Illustration: A gentle giant crouches beside a narrow residential street, his knees rising above the roofs of ordinary two-storey houses. His face and proportions are human, but a resident standing beside his sandal barely reaches his ankle. Rain has begun, and the resident offers him a normal folding umbrella.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

巨きょ人じん

kyojin

giant

Also used figuratively for an influential person. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

その巨人きょじんは誰だれにも愛あいされなかった。
The giant was not loved by anybody.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
託賀郡たくかぐんには昔むかし、巨人きょじんがいて、いつも屈かがんで歩あるいていた。
In Taka County long ago, there was a giant and he was always bending down in walking.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
日本映画創成期にっぽんえいがそうせいきの巨人きょじんである。
He was a giant in the founding period of movie in Japan.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 巨人

巨gigantic; bigOnキョ
人personOnジン・ニンKunひと

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