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JLPT BANDN5 BEGINNER → N1 ADVANCED

違ちがう

N5
ちがう chigau
  1. to differ
godan verbintransitive

Chinese meanings

不同;不对

Examples

  • ライオンとヒョウの違ちがいは何なにですか。
    What's the difference between lions and leopards?
    狮子和豹子有什么区别?
  • そうかもしれないけど、たぶん違ちがう。
    That could be true, but I don't really think so.
    也许是那样,但恐怕不是。
Use this entry in code
import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('35e9881c22'); // 違う
{
  "id": "35e9881c22",
  "word": "違う",
  "reading": "ちがう",
  "romaji": "chigau",
  "meanings": [
    "to differ"
  ],
  "level": "N5",
  "pos": [
    "v5u",
    "vi"
  ],
  "jmdict_id": 1158880,
  "examples": [
    {
      "ja": "ライオンとヒョウの違いは何ですか。",
      "furigana": "ライオンとヒョウの{違|ちが}いは{何|なに}ですか。",
      "en": "What's the difference between lions and leopards?",
      "tatoeba_id": 192689
    },
    {
      "ja": "そうかもしれないけど、たぶん違う。",
      "furigana": "そうかもしれないけど、たぶん{違|ちが}う。",
      "en": "That could be true, but I don't really think so.",
      "tatoeba_id": 213899
    }
  ],
  "zh": {
    "status": "reviewed",
    "source_hash": "4e9023677011265491e2cf7275ddae098138a119ead98439ef98a2736fddc34c",
    "meanings": [
      "不同;不对"
    ],
    "examples": [
      {
        "ja": "ライオンとヒョウの違いは何ですか。",
        "zh": "狮子和豹子有什么区别?"
      },
      {
        "ja": "そうかもしれないけど、たぶん違う。",
        "zh": "也许是那样,但恐怕不是。"
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      "upstream vocab/n5/35e9881c22",
      "Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
    ],
    "reviewer": "Codex",
    "review_method": "ai",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-28",
    "review_hash": "ee29378dad861d080721d2f5f66a996c95e8f955daefa9ecea2c489740e3ceb0"
  }
}