溶ける

• 読み: とける
• ローマ字: tokeru
• 漢字の分解: 溶 (you/to) — melt, dissolve
• 発音: /to.ke.ɾɯ/

意味

To melt; to thaw; to dissolve. The process of a solid becoming liquid or blending into a solution.

A Group 2 (ichidan) intransitive verb conjugated by dropping る (溶けない, 溶けます). Covers physical melting (ice, chocolate), thawing (frozen food), and dissolving (sugar in water). The transitive pair is 溶かす (to melt/dissolve something). Also used figuratively: 緊張が溶ける (tension dissolves).

例文

1. アイスクリームが暑さで溶けてしまった。
2. 砂糖がお湯にすぐ溶ける。
3. 春になって雪がだんだん溶けてきた。

使い方ガイド

場面: cooking, science, weather

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 溶 combines 氵 (water radical) and 容 (contain/form), suggesting a substance losing its form and becoming liquid.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal