けん
Meanings
Noun
1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
Kanji used
occurence
case
Pitch accent
けん
Top 800
Composed of
individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
Used in vocabulary (76 in total)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
kidnapping; kidnaping
Examples (70 in total)
It was a strange affair.
I looked into the incident.
The police are looking into the matter.