Japanese word
大変
たいへん
In your course · Chapter 13
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- archaic
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 382 in the course corpus
Meanings
- hard; tough
- very
- greatly
- terribly
- awfully
- immense
- enormous
- great
- serious
- grave
- dreadful
- terrible
- difficult
- hard
- challenging
- major incident
- disaster
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 大
- On reading:
- タイ、ダイ
- Kun reading:
- -おお.いに、おお-、おお.きい
- Meanings:
- large, big
- 変
- On reading:
- ヘン
- Kun reading:
- か.える、か.わり、か.わる
- Meanings:
- unusual, change, strange
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))