膨

Meaning

膨 centers on expansion in size or volume: swelling up, becoming fat, or growing thick. The idea is something filling out or puffing up from within.

• 膨らむふくらむ
  N2

  to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated

• 膨大ぼうだい
  N2

  huge; vast; enormous; colossal; extensive; large

• 膨張ぼうちょう
  N1

  expansion; swelling; increase; growth

• 膨れるふくれる
  N1

  to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to distend; to bulge

• 膨らますふくらます
  N2

  to swell; to expand; to inflate; to bulge

• 膨らみふくらみ

  swelling; bulge; puff

• 膨満ぼうまん

  distention; fullness; inflation; flatulence

• 下膨れしもぶくれ

  round-faced

• 信用膨張しんようぼうちょう

  expansion of credit; inflation of credit

• 可膨張式かぼうちょうしき

  inflatable (in the sense of "can be inflated")

• 小鼻を膨らますこばなをふくらます

  to look displeased; to flare one's nostrils

• 思う事言わねば腹膨るおもうこといわねばはらふくる

  if you don't speak your mind, you'll feel uneasy afterwards

• 想像を膨らませるそうぞうをふくらませる

  to make (someone's) imagination go wild; to inspire (someone's) imagination

• 海膨かいぼう

  rise

• 熱膨張ねつぼうちょう

  thermal expansion

• 熱膨張係数ねつぼうちょうけいすう

  thermal expansion coefficient

• 着膨れきぶくれ

  bundling up (in layers of clothes)

• 着膨れるきぶくれる

  to be thickly clad

• 線膨張せんぼうちょう

  linear expansion

• 線膨張係数せんぼうちょうけいすう

  coefficient of linear expansion

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