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暮らし (くらし, kurashi) Japanese meaning: life | Kotomora
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都と 会かい の 暮く らし は 便べん 利り だ が 、 物ぶっ 価か が 高たか い 。
City life is convenient, but the cost of living is high.
It's tough to make a living on just a pension.
Usage patterns 〈 形けい 容よう 詞し 〉 暮く らしをする to lead a ... kind of life
暮く らしが 苦くる しい one's livelihood is difficult; hard to make ends meet
Prices went up and life has become hard.
暮く らしを 支ささ える to support a household's livelihood
He works to support his family's livelihood.
暮く らしが 楽らく になる one's life becomes easier (financially)
My salary went up, and life got easier.
Expressions その 日ひ 暮ぐ らし hand-to-mouth existence; scraping by financially · living day by day without a plan; taking life as it comes 暮く らしに 響ひび く affect one's daily life; impact the cost of living Kanji 暮 evening, twilight, season's end Related words 生活 is the neutral, formal word for daily life and activities, while 暮らし leans toward the everyday feel and financial state of one's living.
生計 specifically means one's means of livelihood or income, whereas 暮らし more broadly covers the whole manner of daily living.
人生 refers to one's entire life span from birth to death, while 暮らし focuses on the day-to-day experience of living.
暮らし simply means living or daily life, whereas 暮らし振り adds the nuance of describing the manner or state of that living.
Written forms 暮く らし Usage 76%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
くらし Usage 14%
暮くら し Usage 8%
Variant kanji spelling; less common but still encountered.
ぐらし Usage 1%
search-only kana form
Search-only kana form; used as a suffix in compounds like 一人暮らし (ひとりぐらし).
Etymology Derived from the verb 暮らす (くらす, 'to live, to spend one's days'). The noun form 暮らし nominalizes the continuative stem.
暮く
らし
方かた
living together as a pair; two-person household
Show 6 more living with one's parents; living at home
living circumstances; lifestyle; household finances
living abroad; life overseas
country living; life in the countryside
living in poverty; needy circumstances
widowhood; widowerhood; life as a widow/widower
