Usage patterns 春はる の 息吹いぶき を 感かん じる to feel the breath of spring / sense spring's arrival
Walking through the park, I felt the breath of spring.
〈 物もの〉 〉 に 新あたら しい 息吹いぶき を 吹ふ き 込こ む to breathe new life into something
His ideas breathed new life into the company.
〈 事こと〉 〉 の 息吹いぶき the vitality/spirit of a period or place
The spirit of the era lives on in this book.
Kanji 息 breath, respiration, son Related words 呼吸 is the plain, everyday word for the physical act of breathing, while 息吹 is a more poetic term often implying a deep, life-giving breath.
気配 refers generally to a subtle sign or feeling of something happening, while 息吹 specifically evokes a sense of new life or vitality, as in the arrival of spring.
息 is the common, neutral word for breath, whereas 息吹 carries a literary, figurative nuance tied to vitality or freshness.
Written forms 息吹いぶき Usage 69%
Standard modern spelling. High-frequency news and common usage.
息い 吹ぶ き Usage 19%
irregular okurigana
Irregular okurigana variant; rarely used in modern writing.
いぶき Usage 13%
気吹いぶき
rarely-used kanji form
Rare kanji form; not commonly encountered.
Etymology A noun derived from 息吹く (いぶく ), “to breathe.” Its figurative senses developed from breath as a sign of life and vitality.
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