更ける

• 読み: ふける
• ローマ字: fukeru
• 漢字の分解: 更 (fu/kō) — to renew, grow late, deepen
• 発音: /ɸɯ.ke.ɾɯ/

意味

To get late; to advance; to wear on. Specifically describes the deepening of night or the advancing of a season.

A Group 2 (ichidan) intransitive verb. Almost exclusively used with 夜 (night) or seasons like 秋 (autumn). It carries a literary, poetic tone and is common in written Japanese, essays, and atmospheric descriptions.

例文

1. 夜が更けるにつれて、街は静かになった。
2. 秋が更けて、木の葉がすっかり色づいた。
3. 夜更けまで友人と語り合った。

使い方ガイド

場面: literature, seasonal descriptions, night scenes

トーン: literary

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 更 means 'to renew' or 'to change,' reflecting the passage of time as night deepens or seasons progress.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal