also: きっかい
strange; weird; mysterious; outrageous
Describes something bizarre, inexplicable, or suspicious; often carries a negative or unsettling tone. The reading きっかい is more emphatic and colloquial.
彼の行動は奇怪で、誰も理解できなかった。
His behavior was strange, and no one could understand it.
There are too many mysterious points in that case.
A bizarre incident occurred in the town.
I heard a strange, unsettling noise in the middle of the night.
I found his behavior suspiciously strange.
Kana spelling; common in casual writing when kanji is not needed.
Kana spelling of the emphatic variant; used for expressive effect.
Emphatic variant with geminate consonant; more colloquial and expressive.