Meaning
怪奇 (かいき, kaiki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “strange, weird, uncanny”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
昨晩怪奇事件のドラマを見ました
Last night I watched a drama about a mysterious incident.
前時代的には、怪奇現象と考えられていた。
Thought to be mysterious phenomena in the old times.
持ち前の怪奇趣味が災いして度々事件の発端になる。
His interest in the bizarre being the cause, he is often the origin of trouble.
怪談や怪奇現象の舞台としても殊に著名で、古来より現代に至るまで、様々な話が伝えられている。
Midoroga-ike Pond is particularly well known as a backdrop for ghost stories and unnatural phenomenon, with various stories having been told about this pond since ancient times to today.
さらに現代においては、城跡がいわゆる心霊スポットなど怪奇現象の舞台としての関心をもたれることもある。
Furthermore, in the modern age, ruins of castle sometimes attract attention as a stage for mysterious phenomenon, for example, so-called shinrei spot (haunted places).
怪奇ものでは、中国志怪小説や英米怪奇小説の翻案や、『世界怪談名作集』『支那怪奇小説集』などの編訳もある。
His horror novels include adaptations of ancient Chinese horror stories and Western horror stories, and also compiled and translated works such as "Sekai Kaidan Meisakushu" (The World's Best Horror Stories) and "Shina Kaiki Shosetsushu" (Chinese Horror Stories).
一方で『遊行柳』『紅葉狩(能)』『船弁慶』など霊験や怨霊、怪奇を主題とした派手でわかりやすい能を書き、時流に迎えられた。
Meanwhile, he wrote extravagant and easy-to understand works of Noh such as "Yukiyanagi," "Momijigari (Noh)," "Funa Benkei" whose main themes are miraculous virtue, vengeful spirits and mysteries and he became very popular at that time.
那須は「日本人の心に昔から根づいていた怪奇なものへの憧れといったものを現代に再現できないだろうか」と考え、執筆したという。
He asked himself, 'Is it possible to reproduce the yearning for mystery that Japanese people have held in their minds since old times?,' and he is said to have written them.
1970年代には怪奇系児童書の一環として児童向けに、百科、図鑑、事典などの体裁をとって妖怪たちを紹介する書籍が多く刊行された。
During the 1970's, many books were published that introduced yokai in the form of encyclopedia, illustrations and dictionary as a part of children's horror books.
そのため、外見等にはあまり構わず旅館は拡張競争を繰り広げてきたため、複雑怪奇なコンクリートの姿をむき出しにしており、景観を阻害している。
For this reason, ryokan have competed to expand their facilities paying little attention to appearances, resulting in conspicuously ugly concrete blocks, which are damaging the scenery around them.
-『続日本紀』に「大祓、宮中にしきりに、妖怪あるためなり」という記述があり、同様になにかの物を指すのではなく、怪奇現象を表す言葉として妖怪を用いている。
In "Shoku Nihongi" (Chronicle of Japan Continued), there is a description that 'Shinto purification is held because yokai appears very often in the Imperial Court,' and the word yokai is used in a similar manner, not to refer to some object, but to describe an unnatural phenomenon.