Illustration: At a breakfast table in a Japanese apartment, a pajama-clad child is caught in an enormous yawn, eyes squeezed almost shut and one hand rising too late to cover the open mouth. Their other arm stretches lazily above their head.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

あくび

akubi

yawn

Example sentences

  1. あくびをした。

    I yawned.

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  2. 何なんであくびするの？

    Why are you yawning?

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  3. トムはあくびを抑おさえた。

    Tom suppressed a yawn.

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