Illustration: In a neighborhood recreation room, three older friends are engrossed in a tabletop spinning-top game. One has just launched a top, another leans so far sideways to follow it that a companion catches their sleeve, and all three laugh at the narrow escape from the table edge.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

興きょうじる

kyoujiru

to amuse oneself

Often used with games and other pastimes. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ウィンドサーフィンに興きょうじる若者達わかものたちを眺ながめて、砂浜すなはまに寝ねころがっていた。

    I lay on the beach watching young people windsurf.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  2. 幼少時ようしょうじから芸事げいごとに親したしみ、母親ははおやの経営けいえいする寄席よせの高座こうざで芝居しばいごっこに興きょうじて過すごした。

    From an early age, he was involved in the performing arts and spent his time playing at acting on the stage of the variety theater his mother ran.

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

  3. 和服姿わふくすがたの女性じょせいや子供こどもたちが興きょうじる姿すがたは、正月しょうがつの風物詩ふうぶつしとして報道ほうどうされる。

    The sight of women and children in traditional Japanese dress enjoying themselves is reported as a New Year’s tradition.

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

Kanji in 興

  • 興entertain; reviveOnコウ・キョウKunおこる・おこす

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