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あかり
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Meanings
Noun
1. (a) light; lights; lamp (also written as 灯火)
Other spellings
明あかり灯あかり
Kanji in other spellings
明bright灯lamp
Pitch accent
あかり
Used in vocabulary
薄うす明あかり
dim light; faint light; half-light of early morning; twilight
Noun
月つき明あかり
moonlight
Noun
雪ゆきあかり
brightness of snow; reflected light of snow; (by) snow light
Noun
星ほし明あかり
starlight
Noun
明あかり取とり
skylight; dormer; transom; dormer window
Noun
明あかり障しょう子じ
paper screen door for admitting light
Noun
西にし明あかり
twilight; western evening sky
Noun
花はな明あかり
the brilliance of cherry blossoms which illuminate the evening
Noun
川かわ明あかり
glow of a river in the darkness; surface of a river gleaming in the darkness; gleam on a river at dusk
Noun
明あかり窓まど
transom; skylight; dormer window
Noun
水みず明あかり
faint reflection of light upon the water in the dark
Noun
灯ひ明あかり
lamplight; torchlight
Noun
Examples78
You'll strain your eyes trying to read in this light.
Turn on the light, please.
She turned on the light.
His face was shadowed from the light.
I ran on and on and came in sight of a light.
He saw a light far away.