EntryCommonJLPT N2WaniKani 60
  1. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Intransitive verb

    to well (up); to gush out (of water); to spring out; to surge

    彼女の目には涙が湧きあふれていた。
    Her eyes gushed with tears.
  2. to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to sweat; to cry

  3. to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.); to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds); to well up; to arise

  4. to hatch; to breed; to propagate; to be infested (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

Also written 涌く【わく】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

boil, ferment, seethe, uproar, breed

Kun
わ.く
On
ユウヨウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2070 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 60

Built from

Used in names as

わきわく

Dictionary and index codes (21)
CodeReference
1-3-9SKIP code
3a9.31The Kanji Dictionary
3712.7Four corner code
6e67Unicode hex code
1-45-15JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2607Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3207New Nelson (John Haig)
615New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
749Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
448Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
563Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2284Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1510Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1573Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
17862XMorohashi
2144Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1475Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
yong3, chong1Pinyin reading
yongKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
60WaniKani level