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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幻まぼろし

maboroshi

illusion, phantom

Example sentences

どちらにしてもあれは幻まぼろしだ。
In any case, that’s an illusion.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
まるで幻まぼろしのようなものです。
It is like a phantom.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
私わたしの罪つみは幻まぼろしのように思おもえる。
My crime seems unreal to me.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 幻

幻phantasm; visionOnゲンKunまぼろし

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