湧く
わく
Also written 涌く
Meanings
- Godan verb, Intransitive to well (up); to gush out (of water); to spring out; to surge
- to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to sweat; to cry
- to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.); to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds); to well up; to arise
- to hatch; to breed; to propagate; to be infested (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
Kanji
- 湧 gush. Read as わく.
Example sentences
- トムは興味が湧きました。
Tom became curious. - 最近何に対しても意欲が湧きません。
I haven't felt the motivation to do anything lately. - 君も、君の声も、君の顔も、君の仕草も、何も頭の中に湧いてこない。
You, your voice, your face, your gestures...none of it comes to mind. - 社会学の論文ってどんなこと書くの？ なんか全然イメージが湧かないんだけど。
What kind of things do you write about in a sociology paper? I don't have the faintest idea.
Common phrases
- 興味が湧く
- イメージが湧く
- 温泉が湧く
- 水が湧く
- 疑問が湧く
- 意欲が湧く
- 親近感が湧く
- 気持ちが湧く
- 食欲が湧く
- 勇気が湧く
- 実感が湧く (じっかんがわく) to feel that something is true or actually happening
- 気力が湧く
- 降って湧いた (ふってわいた) sudden and unexpected
- インスピレーションが湧く
- 蛆が湧く
Words containing 湧く
- 湧き出る (わきでる) to gush forth (e.g. water from a spring)
- 湧き上がる (わきあがる) to boil up
- 湧き出す (わきだす) to gush out
And 4 more.