胡乱

Uron

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Meaning

dubious, suspicious

Of uncertain identity and suspicious; also, of doubtful truth.

Example

駅前で胡乱な儲け話を持ちかけられた。

Outside the station, someone pitched me a shady moneymaking scheme.

Origin

U and ron are the tōon readings of 胡 and 乱. Because the word appears in the Shōbōgenzō and in the poetry and prose of Gozan monks, it is thought to have come in through Zen Buddhism. In China it meant disorderly, but in Japan the sense of doubtful developed and later became the main one.

Sources

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