Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
煌めく
煌く
燦めく

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

きらめく (kiramekuintransitive 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 edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ きらめく”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (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