VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

かぜ
hepburn kaze

wind

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

  1. 今日は風が強いです。
    The wind is strong today.
  2. 風が冷たいです。
    The wind is cold.

Collocations

風が強い (wind is strong)風が冷たい (wind is cold)風邪 (kaze-cold, illness — same Hepburn)風船 (fuusen, balloon)台風 (taifuu, typhoon)

Mnemonic

風 kaze-wind — disambiguated from 風邪 kaze-cold (illness, batch 5). Onyomi ふう (fuu): 風船 fuusen (balloon), 台風 taifuu (typhoon), 和風 wafuu (Japanese style). Combines with adjectives: 風が強い/弱い/冷たい/暖かい.

Quick check

  1. How is "typhoon" 台風 read in Japanese?

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