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破天荒

破天荒

Chinese

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

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, romaji hatenkō)

  1. unheard-of, unprecedented

Inflection

Noun

破天荒 (hiragana はてんこう, romaji 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 978-4-14-011112-3
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.