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Meaning of 軽い in Japanese
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軽いJLPT 5
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Kana Readingかるい, かろい
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Romajikarui, karoi
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- adjective (keiyoushi)
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- light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily)
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- Parts of speech
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- light (i.e. of foot); nimble; agile
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- Parts of speech
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- non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial
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- Parts of speech
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- slight; small; gentle; soft
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- Parts of speech
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- easy; simple
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- Parts of speech
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- indiscriminate
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Examples of 軽い, かるい, かろい in a sentence
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I'm short-tempered, and a loose-tongued man.
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I felt very light on my feet afterwards.
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暖かい軽い空気は山越えすると上空に上昇し、地上には下りてこないことなど、風は地形によって変わります。
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
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However he wasn't seriously hurt and got away with light bruising.
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マックで軽く昼食をとって、スタバでコーヒーを飲んで、しゃぶしゃぶをしながら飲み会という流れだ。
A light lunch at MacD's, coffee at Starbucks, then a few drinks with shabu-shabu - that's the way it went.
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If you skip breakfast and keep lunch light, then in the evening you can have whatever you want.
Related Kanji
12 strokes
lightly, trifling, unimportant
On'Yomi: ケイ
Kun'Yomi: かる.い, かろ.やか, かろ.んじる