俄

にわか · niwaka · JLPT N2 · na-adj

sudden

☔ Sounds like knee-wah-car: a car that suddenly appears out of nowhere

俄 appears in にわか雨 (niwaka-ame), a sudden rain shower that starts abruptly. Think of the word as the adjective for anything that arrives without warning.

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