湧く

• 読み: わく
• ローマ字: waku
• 漢字の分解: 湧 (yū/wa) — boil, spring forth, well up
• 発音: /wa.kɯ/

意味

To well up; to spring forth; to boil. For water, emotions, or ideas rising up from within.

A Group 1 (godan) intransitive verb conjugated with the く row. Used for water springing from a source (温泉が湧く = a hot spring wells up), emotions arising (勇気が湧く = courage wells up), and ideas occurring (アイデアが湧く = ideas spring to mind). Also used for insects swarming (虫が湧く). Conveys something emerging naturally from below.

例文

1. この山からきれいな水が湧いている。
2. 応援を聞いて勇気が湧いてきた。
3. いいアイデアが次々と湧いてきた。

使い方ガイド

場面: nature, emotions, creative thinking

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 湧 combines 氵 (water radical) and 勇 (courage/bravery), originally depicting water surging up bravely from the earth.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal