怪かい奇き

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

1

Describes something eerie, uncanny, or inexplicably odd, often with a supernatural or unsettling undertone.

その映えい画がは怪かい奇きな雰ふん囲い気きに満みちていた。

The movie was filled with a bizarre atmosphere.

怪かい奇き現げん象しょうを調ちょう査さする番ばん組ぐみが人にん気きだ。

Programs that investigate strange phenomena are popular.

2

Emphasizes a distorted, unnatural, or repulsively strange quality, often in appearance or form.

怪かい奇きな〈事こと〉a bizarre, eerie incident or occurrence
この村むらでは昔むかしから怪かい奇きな事じ件けんが相つ次づいで起ておきている。
In this village, bizarre incidents have long occurred one after another.
〈事こと〉〉は怪奇極かいきをきわまるsomething is utterly bizarre/mysterious
その事じ件けんの真しん相そうは怪かい奇き極をきわまるものだった。
The truth behind that case turned out to be utterly bizarre.
怪かい奇きな〈物もの〉a grotesque, distorted-looking thing
博はく物ぶつ館かんには怪かい奇きな仮か面めんがいくつも展てん示じされていた。
The museum had several grotesque masks on display.

不ぶ気き味みN2sense 1
不気味 stresses a creepy, ominous feeling, while 怪奇 can describe something merely bizarre or mysterious without necessarily feeling threatening.
奇き妙みょうN3sense 1
奇妙 means simply 'odd' or 'peculiar', whereas 怪奇 carries a stronger eerie or supernatural undertone.
神しん秘ぴ的てき sense 1
神秘的 highlights an awe-inspiring, mystical quality, while 怪奇 leans more toward the unsettling or grotesque side of the mysterious.

怪かい異い sense 1
怪異 and 怪奇 both describe eerie, supernatural strangeness, but 怪異 is more often used as a noun for a supernatural phenomenon itself, while 怪奇 is the descriptive adjective.
快かい気き sense 1
快気 is pronounced the same as 怪奇 but means 'recovery from illness', a completely unrelated meaning.
奇き怪かい
怪奇 and 奇怪 share the same two kanji reversed and both mean 'bizarre', but 怪奇 is used mainly as a noun modifier in set phrases like 怪奇現象, while 奇怪 is the general adjective for 'strange/suspicious'.

Compound of 怪 (mysterious, strange) and 奇 (strange, curious). The combination reinforces the sense of the bizarre and uncanny.

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complicated and mysterious; intricate and bizarre

mystery story; tale of the strange