Illustration: At a community invention exhibition, a shy older woman stands beside the compact vegetable-sorting machine she built in her home workshop. Reporters cluster around her with microphones and cameras, while visitors crane forward and applaud the machine’s neatly separated produce.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

脚きゃっ光こう

kyakkou

limelight, public attention

Usually used as 脚光を浴びる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. しかし、近年きんねんのアンティーク着物きものブームにより、ふたたび羽織はおりが脚光きゃっこうを浴あびるようになった。

    However, because of the antique kimono boom in recent years, the haori coat appeared and stole the limelight again.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. だが、結論けつろんから言いえばそういう者ものたちは当時とうじは圧倒的あっとうてきな少数派しょうすうはで、脚光きゃっこうを浴あびるには至いたらなかった。

    But to conclude, they were very few in those days and were not paid any attention.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 近年きんねんに入はいり簪かんざしの持もつ優美ゆうびな美うつくしさを普段ふだんの洋装ようそうに加くわえようとする若わかい日本女性にっぽんじょせいの間まで再ふたたび脚光きゃっこうを浴あびつつもある。

    These days, kanzashi are again attracting the attention of young Japanese women who want to add the elegant beauty of kanzashi to their ordinary western style clothing.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 脚光

  • 脚skids; legOnキャク・キャ・カクKunあし
  • 光ray; lightOnコウKunひかる・ひかり

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