大事件

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	事	件
だい Grade: 1	じ Grade: 3	けん Grade: 5
goon		kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 大(だい) (dai-, “big, large”) + 事(じ)件(けん) (jiken, “incident”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) だいじ​けん [dàíjíꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [da̠iʑikẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

大(だい)事(じ)件(けん) • (daijiken) ^{←だいじけん (daiziken)?}

1. major incident

   Antonym: 小事件 (shōjiken)