Illustration: During an evening power outage in a Japanese home, an adult uses a long utility lighter to ignite a candle in a sturdy holder on the dining table. A small new flame has just caught at the previously dark wick, directly beside the lighter’s tip.

Beyond N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

点てん火か

tenka

to ignite, to light

Example sentences

  1. 2021年ねん、大坂おおさかなおみ選手せんしゅは東京とうきょう2020オリンピックの聖火台せいかだいに点火てんかしました。

    Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 点火てんかに際さいしては束たばを解といて扇状せんじょうに広ひろげてろうそくなどの火ひであぶる。

    When lighting, untie a bundle, hold sticks in fan-like fashion and ignite them with a candle etc.

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

  3. 明治以降めいじいこう、夏以外なついがいに戦勝せんしょうなどのイベント絡がらみで数回すうかい点火てんかされたことがある。

    Since the Meiji era, the bonfires have been burnt several times during the season other than summer on various occasions including the event to celebrate Japan’s victory.

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

Kanji in 点火

  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる
  • 火fireOnカKunひ・ほ-

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