都会
とかい
hepburn tokai
the city, urban area
Part of speech · noun
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都metropolis
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Examples
- 都会の生活は便利ですが、にぎやかです。City life is convenient but bustling.
- 田舎から都会へ引っ越しました。I moved from the countryside to the city.
Collocations
都会の生活大都会都会に住む都会へ出る都会の人
Mnemonic
都会 tokai — 都 (capital, metropolis) + 会 (gathering). 都 is a large city where people and functions gather, 会 is gathering — a large city where people gather to live — an urban area. Its antonym is 田舎 (inaka, the countryside). 都会 ↔ 田舎 is a basic contrast pair of everyday Japanese.
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