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勘違い (かんちがい): misunderstanding, wrong guess — Japanese vocabulary

勘違い is read かんちがい and means "misunderstanding, wrong guess". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

勘違い

Reading
かんちがい · kanchigai
Translation
misunderstanding, wrong guess
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
かんちがいが

Example

彼はクラスで一番頭がいいと勘違いしている。

かれはクラスでいちばんあたまがいいとかんちがいしている。

He has the illusion that he is the smartest in his class.

Kanji in this word

  • 勘 — Intuition, Perception, Check
  • 違 — differ, wrong

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