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契機

けいき

opportunity; turning point; trigger; occasion

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Examples

  1. 退職を契機に茶道を始めた。

    たいしょくをけいきにさどうをはじめた。

    I took the opportunity of retirement to begin studying the tea ceremony.

  2. この事件を契機に法律が改正された。

    このじけんをけいきにほうりつがかいせいされた。

    This incident was the trigger for the law being revised.

  3. 一年間の留学が、彼の人生を変える大きな契機となった。

    いちねんかんのりゅうがくが、かれのじんせいをかえるおおきなけいきとなった。

    A year of study abroad became the turning point that changed his life.

Common patterns

〜を契機に
taking ~ as the occasion; prompted by ~
契機となる
to become a turning point
一つの契機
one trigger / one impetus

Memory tip

Formal and written. 〜を契機に(して) frames an event as what actually set a change in motion, whereas 機会 is merely a chance you may or may not take. Its homophone 景気 means "economic conditions".

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