破天荒

Chinese

 
to break; to split; broken; damaged; worn out
trad. (破天荒) 天荒
simp. #(破天荒) 天荒

Pronunciation


Idiom

破天荒

  1. unprecedented, unheard-of; for the first time

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
てん
Grade: 1
こう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

破天荒 (-na inflection, hiragana はてんこう, rōmaji hatenkō)

  1. unheard-of, unprecedented

Inflection

Noun

破天荒 (hiragana はてんこう, rōmaji hatenkō)

  1. being unprecedented

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.