Word Meaning 対岸の火事

たいがんのかじ taigan no kaji

対岸の火事 is read as たいがんのかじ (taigan no kaji) and means someone else's problem.

Meaning

English

someone else's problem
fire on the opposite shore

Reading

Kana

たいがんのかじ

Romaji

taigan no kaji

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 28 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Proverb ✓ Rank 43749 Priority G

Related Vocabulary

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対岸

たいがん

opposite shore

対戦車火器

たいせんしゃかき

anti-tank weapons

対日理事会

たいにちりじかい

Allied Council for Japan

対空砲火

たいくうほうか

anti-aircraft fire

火事

かじ

fire

山火事

やまかじ

forest fire

護岸工事

ごがんこうじ

levee protection works

軍事対決

ぐんじたいけつ

military confrontation

火事場

かじば

scene of a fire

自動車事故対策機構

じどうしゃじこたいさくきこう

National Agency for Automotive Safety & Victims' Aid (NASVA)

地震雷火事親父

じしんかみなりかじおやじ

things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers

火事旋風

かじせんぷう

firestorm