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架空 (かくう): imaginary, fiction, fanciful — Japanese vocabulary

架空 is read かくう and means "imaginary, fiction, fanciful". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

架空

Reading
かくう · kakuu
Translation
imaginary, fiction, fanciful
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
かくうが

Example

この物語の中で書かれているすべての出来事は架空のものです。

このものがたりのなかでかかれているすべてのできごとはかくうのものです。

All the events described in this story are imaginary.

Kanji in this word

  • 架 — Erect, Frame, Mount
  • 空 — sky, empty

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