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とんちんかん
Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word とんちんかん.
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Entry
1
absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance
Examples
私の祖父は耳が遠いので、よくトンチンカンな返事をする。
My grandfather, being hard of hearing, often makes an irrelevant answer.
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