Illustration: In a darkened Japanese apartment during a power outage, a parent sets a small battery lantern on the low living-room table. Its light reveals the parent's face, a child's relieved smile, and the bowls from an interrupted evening meal. Beyond its reach, the room remains dim.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

明あかり

akari

a light, lamp

Example sentences

  1. どうか明あかりをつけて下ください。

    Turn on the light, please.

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  2. 明あかりがついている。

    The light is on.

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  3. 灯あかりが点ついた。

    The light went on.

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Kanji in 明

  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ

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