Keyword
occasional
Info
FrequencyTop 1200-1300
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig2105
Readings
ぐう
(94%)
たま
(3%)
く
(1%)
Composed of
thin person
long-tailed monkey
Mnemonic

Occasionally even a long-tailed monkey looks like a person. If you look from far away. And it's dark. And you've lost your glasses in a ditch.

Used in vocabulary (88 in total)
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
spouse; wife; husband; partner
accidental; incidental; occasional; casual
Examples (103 in total)
The explosion came about by accident.
That discovery was quite accidental.
It happened completely by accident.