Illustration: At an apartment entrance, a parent holds up a matching pair of children’s sneakers side by side. One has just been scrubbed completely clean; the other remains thickly coated with dried mud from sole to laces. The contrast is impossible to miss.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

歴れき然ぜん

rekizen

clearly, plainly

Usually appears as 歴然とした or 歴然としている. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 両者りょうしゃの間まには歴然れきぜんとした違ちがいがある。

    There is a marked difference between them.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 君きみが注意ちゅういを払はらっていなかったのは歴然れきぜんとしている。

    It’s quite plain that you haven’t been paying attention.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 小学校しょうがっこうの運営うんえいは各学区かくがっくに任まかされていたため、富とんだ区くと、そうでない区くの教育差きょういくさが歴然れきぜんとし始はじめた。

    Because each school district was responsible for running its elementary schools, the educational gap between wealthy and less wealthy districts began to become clear.

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

Kanji in 歴然

  • 歴curriculum; continuationOnレキ・レッキ
  • 然sort of thing; soOnゼン・ネンKunしか・しかり・しかし

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store