Keyword
unusual
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig1859
Readings
ちん
(7%)
めず
(1%)
Composed of
king
person
a patch of hair
Used in vocabulary (87 in total)
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
curious; strange; unusual
queer; odd; fantastic
Examples (42 in total)
This is a very rare specimen.
Is this uncommon?
It is rare for him to get angry.
It is not rare for him to make such a mistake.
It is rare that he should make such a mistake.
This is a strange kind of fish.
How did you come by these rare books?
How did you come by those rare books?
Can you obtain this rare book for me?
He happened to catch sight of a rare butterfly.
These butterflies are rare in our country.
Some people keep rare animals as pets.
This autumn I am, unusually, watching many drama series.
The story revolves around a mysterious adventure.
I need a rarer kanji.
I see a rare flower in the vase.
It's unusual for him to get up early.
I found something interesting in the town.
I thought it was unusual that he was up so late at night.
A six-figure income is not uncommon for physicians.
He was in a bad mood, which was rare for him.
Tom is in a good mood today, which is unusual.
He told the children about his adventures in Africa.
Painters such as Picasso are rare.
He hit on a rare old book.
He chanced on a rare book at a second-hand bookstore.
I ran across a rare book in a secondhand bookstore.
There are very rare animals in Australia.
There are rare animals in Australia.
Where did you come across the rare stamps?
I found a rare stamp at that store.
Such a case is not uncommon today.
Cholera is uncommon in Japan.
His hobby is collecting strange butterflies.
Nowadays it isn't unusual for a woman to travel alone.
We saw many unusual plants in the botanical garden.
The townspeople looked curiously at me.
A protagonist as plain and ordinary as him is rare indeed.
Space travel will be commonplace some time in the future.
An eclipse of the moon is a rare phenomenon.
This old coin is very rare.
I found a rare book I had been looking for.