大事件

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 1

Grade: 3
けん
Grade: 5
goon kan'on

Etymology

Compound of (だい) (dai-, big, large) + ()(けん) (jiken, incident).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いじけん [dàíjíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [da̠iʑikẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

(だい)()(けん) • (daijikenだいじけん (daiziken)?

  1. major incident
    Antonym: 小事件 (shōjiken)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN