然

Meaning

然 centers on a state or condition being just as it is: something being so, a sort of thing, or a natural consequence. Its uses as 'if so' or 'in that case' follow from that same idea of things being as they are.

• 全然ぜんぜん
  N5

  (not) at all; (not) in the slightest

• 自然しぜん
  N4

  nature

• 当然とうぜん
  N3

  natural; right; proper; just; reasonable; appropriate; deserved

• 突然とつぜん
  N3

  abrupt; sudden; unexpected

• 天然てんねん
  N3

  nature; spontaneity

• 偶然ぐうぜん
  N3

  coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity

• 必然ひつぜん
  N1

  inevitable; necessary; certain; sure

• 同然どうぜん

  just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

• 不自然ふしぜん
  N3

  unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

• 断然だんぜん
  N2

  firmly; flatly; resolutely; decisively; absolutely; definitely

• 依然としていぜんとして
  N1

  still; as yet; as of old

• 公然こうぜん
  N1

  open; public; official; overt

• 依然いぜん
  N2

  still; as yet; as it has been

• 未然みぜん
  N1

  before it happens; previously

• 天然記念物てんねんきねんぶつ

  natural monument

• 騒然そうぜん

  noisy; confused; uproarious

• 天然痘てんねんとう

  smallpox; variola

• 歴然れきぜん
  N1

  evident; plain; distinct; clear

• 漠然ばくぜん
  N1

  vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous

• 天然ガスてんねんガス
  N2

  natural gas

• 必然的ひつぜんてき
  N1

  inevitable; necessary

• 大自然だいしぜん

  nature; Mother Nature

• 自然界しぜんかい

  nature; the natural world; realm of nature

• 自然科学しぜんかがく
  N2

  natural science

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