生き返る

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
かえ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 生き (iki, living, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 生きる ikiru, “to live, to be alive”) + 返る (kaeru, to come back to, to return to, to be returned to).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Verb

生き返る (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana いきかえる, rōmaji ikikaeru)

  1. to return to life, to be revived, to be restored to life

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References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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