いきいき

Japanese

Alternative spellings
生き生き
活き活き

Etymology

From the stem of ()きる (ikiru), doubled and resembling an ideophone.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きい [ìkííꜜkì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ikʲiikʲi]

Adverb

いきいき • (ikiiki) いきいき (ikiiki)?

  1. vividly
  2. lively

Verb

いきいきする • (ikiiki suru) いきいき (ikiiki)?suru (stem いきいき (ikiiki suru shi), past いきいきした (ikiiki suru shita))

  1. look fresh
  2. be full of life

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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