N21528/1725

湧わく

rarely used kanji formgodan verbgodan verb (archaic)verb (generic)intransitive verb

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わく

Meanings

to well (up), to gush out (of water), to spring out, to surge
to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.), to sweat, to cry
to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.), to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds), to well up, to arise
to hatch, to breed, to propagate, to be infested (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

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Example sentences

山やまの頂上ちょうじょうから清きよらかな水みずが湧わいている。

Pure water is welling up from the mountaintop.

彼女かのじょの言葉ことばを聞きいて、勇気ゆうきが湧わいてきた。

Hearing her words, courage welled up inside me.

夏なつになると、食たべ物ものに虫むしが湧わくことがある。

In summer, insects sometimes breed in food.

長ながい旅たびを終おえて故郷こきょうに戻もどったとき、感慨かんがいが胸むねに湧わかなかったわけではない。

When I returned to my hometown after a long journey, it's not that no deep emotion welled up in my chest.

砂漠さばくの真まん中なかで突然とつぜん泉いずみが湧わき出だしたという報告ほうこくが現地げんちから届とどいた。

A report arrived from the site stating that a spring had suddenly gushed out in the middle of the desert.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)