陽炎

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • (sort=かぎろい) heat shimmer, heat haze
  • (sort=かぎろい) the glow of dawn

Etymology

Compound from Japanese かぎる (shine, shimmer) + Japanese 影 kage, “shadow”, and with the kaga element in m + Japanese 炫 kaga, kagaya, “shining, shimmering”, m + Japanese 輝く kagayaku, “to shine, to sparkle” + Japanese 火 (fire, w).

Origin

Japanese

Gloss

fire, w

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

Emoji
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