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錯覚 (さっかく): Illusion — Japanese vocabulary

錯覚 is read さっかく and means "Illusion". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

錯覚

Reading
さっかく · sakkaku
Translation
Illusion
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
さっかくが

Example

これはあれよりも長いように見えるが、錯覚だ。

これはあれよりもながいようにみえるが、さっかくだ。

This looks longer than that, but it is an optical illusion.

Kanji in this word

  • 錯 — confused, mixed
  • 覚 — memorize, awake

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