日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N2

Meaningscollide, brunt, highway, opposition (astronomy), thrust
On'yomiショウ
Kun'yomi
Strokes15
Radical

Compounds

  • impact, shock, impulse, (psychological) shock

  • collision, crash, impact, running into

  • Negotiation (formal)

Example sentences

  • I will handle the negotiations with them.

  • This problem is the clash of the idol's and obsessive fan's egos.

  • The Aegis collision - why couldn't it have been avoided?

  • The taxi collided head-on with a dump truck and was badly crushed.

  • Her death was a great shock to me.

  • No sooner had he come home than he proudly made an earth-shattering announcement.

  • The bursting of Japan's so-called bubble economy sent shock waves through international markets.

  • There was a flare-up between local residents and state regulators.