火事（かじ）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: fire
Example sentences
- 近くで火事があって、消防車が来た。 — There was a fire nearby, and fire trucks came.
- 火事の時は落ち着いて外へ出る。 — In a fire, stay calm and get outside.
Idioms & proverbs containing “火事”
- 地震雷火事親父 (じしんかみなりかじおやじ) — things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
- 火事と喧嘩は江戸の華 (かじとけんかはえどのはな) — fires and fistfights are the flowers of Edo
- 火を見たら火事と思え (ひをみたらかじとおもえ) — you can never be too careful
- 屁と火事はもとから騒ぐ (へとかじはもとからさわぐ) — it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest; the one who smelt it dealt it
- 対岸の火事 (たいがんのかじ) — someone else's problem; fire on the opposite shore
- 火事場の馬鹿力 (かじばのばかぢから) — extraordinary strength displayed in an emergency; surge of power beyond one's normal capacity; great strength exerted at risk
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