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大気 (たいき, taiki) Japanese meaning: atmosphere | Kotomora
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Earth's atmosphere contains a lot of nitrogen and oxygen.
Smoke from factories is polluting the air.
Usage patterns 大た 気いき を 汚お 染せん する to pollute the atmosphere
Exhaust gas from factories is polluting the atmosphere.
大た 気いき 中ちゅう に 〈 物もの 〉 が 存そん 在ざい する for something to exist/be present in the atmosphere
Carbon dioxide exists in the atmosphere.
大た 気いき の 状じょう 態たい が 不ふ 安あん 定てい になる for atmospheric conditions to become unstable
The atmospheric conditions high in the sky are becoming unstable.
Related words 空気 is the everyday word for air (e.g. in a room) and social mood, while 大気 is the more scientific term for the planetary atmosphere.
大度 is the clearer, more direct modern word for magnanimity, whereas 大気 with this meaning is a rare, old-fashioned usage.
大気 refers broadly to the air or atmosphere as a substance, while 大気圏 specifically denotes the atmosphere as a defined zone or layer surrounding the Earth.
大気 is the modern scientific term for the Earth's atmosphere, while this obsolete sense of 雰囲気 is no longer used that way.
大気 refers to the broader atmosphere in a scientific or meteorological sense, while 外気 is the more everyday word for the air just outside a room or building.
Don't confuse with 大器 (a person of great talent) is a homophone of 大気 (the atmosphere) with a completely unrelated meaning.
雰囲気 refers to a figurative atmosphere or mood, while 大気 refers to the literal, physical air of the sky; English 'atmosphere' can mislead learners into conflating them.
大気 refers to the earth's atmosphere as a scientific/geographic whole, while 空気 is the air itself that people breathe or that fills a space.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 大, 'large, great,' and 気, 'air, spirit, energy.' In modern usage the spelling is conventionally associated mainly with the physical atmosphere; the rare magnanimity sense reflects the 'great spirit' side of 気.
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atmospheric refraction; astronomical refraction
Show 6 more within Earth's atmosphere; inner space
outside Earth's atmosphere; outer space; exoatmosphere
atmospheric circulation
atmospheric temperature; ambient temperature
atmospheric sciences
atmospheric composition
