Illustration: At a managed riverside campsite, dry twigs burn in a raised metal fire pit. Several little sparks spring from different points along the wood, and a thin strip of bark has just snapped upward.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

パチパチ

pachipachi

with a crackle, crackling

Example sentences

  1. どこからかパチパチと音おとが聞きこえる。

    I can hear a crackling sound coming from somewhere.

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

  2. 木米もくべいは釜かまの温度おんどを釜かまの中なかの燃もえる火ひから発はっせられるパチパチという音おとで判断はんだんしていた。

    Mokubei judged the temperature of the kiln by the crackling of the fire burning inside it.

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

  3. 花火はなびが夜空よぞらでパチパチとはじけた。

    The fireworks crackled as they burst in the night sky.

    Written by AI for Bebop

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