Word Meaning 大事件

だいじけん daijiken

大事件 is read as だいじけん (daijiken) and means major incident.

Meaning

English

major incident
major happening
big scandal

Reading

Kana

だいじけん

Romaji

daijiken

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 5 Kanken 6級 Related Words 逮捕,事件,注目する,注目を集める,注目される,注目を浴びる Rank 22733 Priority D

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

大阪事件

おおさかじけん

Osaka Incident (plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising; 1885)

大逆事件

たいぎゃくじけん

High Treason Incident (socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji in 1910)

ケネディ大統領暗殺事件

けねでぃだいとうりょうあんさつじけん

assassination of US President John F. Kennedy (November 22, 1963)

事件

じけん

event

殺人事件

さつじんじけん

murder case

四一六事件

しいちろくじけん

April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)

民事事件

みんじじけん

civil case

小事件

しょうじけん

minor incident

不正事件

ふせいじけん

scandal

226事件

ににろくじけん

February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936)

911事件

きゅういちいちじけん

September 11 attacks

テロ事件

てろじけん

act of terror

Example Sentences

１９９０年の重大事件といえば何でしょう？

What were the chief events of 1990?