WORD DETAIL
瞬間移動
しゅんかんいどう
Examples
Included kanji
Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
瞬間移動(しゅんかんいどう)combines瞬間and移動and means teleportation, moving directly to another location. - Basic usage:
魔法で城まで瞬間移動したdescribes magical travel in a story;瞬間移動ができたらimagines such travel being possible.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Fast travel versus teleportation
- Unlike simply moving quickly,
瞬間移動evokes moving to another place without the intervening journey. The first example makes this clear with a magical arrival at a castle.
- Unlike simply moving quickly,
- Fictional and hypothetical contexts
- In the first example,
主人公and魔法establish a story context; in the second,できたらintroduces an imagined possibility. The second example continues with the imagined consequence that commuting time would no longer be needed.
- In the first example,

