VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

秋

あき

hepburn aki

autumn, fall

Part of speech · noun

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秋autumn

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Examples

秋は紅葉がきれいです。
In autumn, the autumn leaves are beautiful.
秋になると食欲が出ます。
When autumn comes, my appetite picks up.

Collocations

秋 (aki, autumn)紅葉 (kouyou / momiji, autumn leaves)読書の秋 (dokusho no aki, autumn of reading)食欲の秋 (shokuyoku no aki, autumn of appetite)運動会 (undoukai, sports day)

Mnemonic

Aki (秋) is Japanese autumn — culturally framed by "~ no aki" collocations: dokusho no aki (autumn of reading), shokuyoku no aki (autumn of appetite), supootsu no aki (autumn of sport), geijutsu no aki (autumn of art). Heat and humidity break, and a reset mood revives all activities. 紅葉 has two readings — on-reading kouyou (Sino) and kun-reading momiji (native), used like two different words. School events undoukai (sports day) and bunkasai (culture festival) cluster here. Korean "season of reading / cheongoma-bi" expresses the same idea cluster.

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