Dictionary / Vocabulary / 途端
とたん
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as
JLPT N3 common word
母はその知らせを聞いた途端青ざめた。
My mother grew pale on hearing the news.
彼女がその本を読み始めたと思った途端、誰かがドアをノックした。
She had hardly begun to read the book before someone knocked at the door.
講演者がそう言った途端、聴衆はどっと笑った。
On the speaker's saying so, the audience burst out into laughter.