突とつ然ぜん

とつぜん totsuzen

abruptly
suddenly
unexpectedly
all at once

の-adjectiveな-adjectiveadverb

Chinese meanings

突然；忽然

Examples

Furigana

すべて突とつ然ぜん起おこった。
Everything happened all at once.
一切发生得很突然。
Tatoeba #214359
突とつ然ぜん明あかりが全すべて消きえてしまった。
All of a sudden, all the lights went out.
灯突然全灭了。
Tatoeba #123274

Use this entry in code

import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('b0fe689407'); // 突然

{
  "id": "b0fe689407",
  "word": "突然",
  "reading": "とつぜん",
  "romaji": "totsuzen",
  "meanings": [
    "abruptly",
    "suddenly",
    "unexpectedly",
    "all at once"
  ],
  "level": "N3",
  "pos": [
    "adj-no",
    "adj-na",
    "adv"
  ],
  "jmdict_id": 1457040,
  "examples": [
    {
      "ja": "すべて突然起こった。",
      "furigana": "すべて{突然|とつぜん}{起|お}こった。",
      "en": "Everything happened all at once.",
      "tatoeba_id": 214359
    },
    {
      "ja": "突然明かりが全て消えてしまった。",
      "furigana": "{突然|とつぜん}{明|あ}かりが{全|すべ}て{消|き}えてしまった。",
      "en": "All of a sudden, all the lights went out.",
      "tatoeba_id": 123274
    }
  ],
  "zh": {
    "status": "reviewed",
    "source_hash": "58b9b8d25eff50d6d8a8bbfc141c89ee03405008c2e3c1ba21d06e042da6ccb6",
    "meanings": [
      "突然",
      "忽然"
    ],
    "examples": [
      {
        "ja": "すべて突然起こった。",
        "zh": "一切发生得很突然。"
      },
      {
        "ja": "突然明かりが全て消えてしまった。",
        "zh": "灯突然全灭了。"
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      "upstream vocab/n3/b0fe689407",
      "JMdict ent_seq 1457040; checked against downloaded JMdict_e.gz on 2026-10-28",
      "Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
    ],
    "reviewer": "Codex",
    "review_method": "ai",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-28",
    "review_hash": "abaa9cff1ff052d1ef095f1c9ae8e021dd5e0c770a2b0fc2a1930f9a20a380c2"
  }
}