きらめく

Japanese

Alternative spellings
煌めく
煌く
燦めく

Etymology

きら (kira, an ideophone) + めく (-meku, to show signs of, to have the appearance of, a verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) らめ [kìráméꜜkù] (Nakadaka – [3])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [kʲiɾa̠me̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

きらめく • (kirameku) intransitive godan (stem きらめき (kirameki), past きらめいた (kirameita))

  1. to shine; to glitter; to glisten; to sparkle; to twinkle

Conjugation

See also

References

  1. きらめく”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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