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契機 (keiki)

opportunity, chance

  • JLPT N1

Meaning

契機 (けいき, keiki) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “opportunity, chance”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 4

退職たいしょくを契機けいきに茶道さどうを始はじめた。

I took the opportunity of retirement to begin studying the tea ceremony.

第四次川中島合戦を契機に信濃侵攻は一段落した。

With the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima as a turning point, the invasion of Shinano came to a pause.

その一方で、一部の大地主や財閥は資本を蓄積し、その中から初期資本家が現れる契機となった。

On the other hand, some large landowners and Zaibatsu accumulated capital, taking the opportunity to become primitive stage capitalists.

その性急な挙兵は少弐氏や大友氏の支持を得られず、自滅する結果となるが、武時の探題襲撃計画は九州における討幕運動の契機となった。

The rapid raising of an army could not get support of the Shoni clan and the Otomo clan, which resulted in his self-destruction, however, Taketoki's plan to attack the tandai triggered the anti-shogunate movement in Kyushu.

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