気配

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • appearance, sign, hint, air, promise, shadow or presence
  • the state, feeling, or sentiment of a market
  • (fantasy) a sort of “aura” or “chi” radiated from people or things that denotes their nearby presence

Etymology

Inherited from Old Japanese けわい com from Japanese 気 (mood, feeling, mind, sense, heart, gas, atmosphere, character, will, awareness, quality, intent, temperament, energy, air, spirit) + Japanese 這い (crawling, spreading, creeping)+ Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb m + Japanese 這う hau, “to crawl, to creep, to spread along the ground, to spread around”.

Origin

Japanese

這う hau, “to crawl, to creep, to spread along the ground, to spread around”

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