Illustration: A branching lightning flash cuts across the clouds above a Japanese residential street at dusk. Its sudden light reveals roof tiles, wet bicycle seats, and the faces of a family watching from safely inside their open curtains.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

稲いな光びかり

inabikari

flash of lightning

Example sentences

  1. 雷鳴らいめいが聞きこえるよりも先さきに稲光いなびかりが見みえるのは、光ひかりが音おとよりも早はやく伝つたわるからである。

    It is because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 稲光いなびかりは雷かみなりの音おとに先行せんこうする。

    The flash of lightning precedes the sound of thunder.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ゆうべは雷かみなりがなって稲光いなびかりがした。

    There was thunder and lightning last night.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 稲光

  • 稲rice plantOnトウ・テKunいね・いな-
  • 光ray; lightOnコウKunひかる・ひかり

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