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浮気 (うわき, uwaki) Japanese meaning: affair | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 5,000 Conjugation 浮気する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 浮気うわき する 浮気うわき しない Polite 浮気うわき します 浮気うわき しません Past polite 浮気うわき しました 浮気うわき しませんでした Past 浮気うわき した 浮気うわき しなかった Te-form 浮気うわき して 浮気うわき しないで Desire 浮気うわき したい 浮気うわき したくない Potential 浮気うわき できる 浮気うわき できない Passive 浮気うわき される 浮気うわき されない Causative 浮気うわき させる 浮気うわき させない Causative passive 浮気うわき させられる 浮気うわき させられない Volitional 浮気うわき しよう Polite volitional 浮気うわき しましょう Imperative 浮気うわき しろ 浮気うわき するな Conditional 浮気うわき すれば 浮気うわき しなければ Tara conditional 浮気うわき したら 浮気うわき しなかったら
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浮うわ
気き
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ばれ
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His wife found out about his affair, and they got divorced.
I will never forgive cheating.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひ 〉 と 浮気〉とうわき する to have an affair/cheat with someone
It turned out that my husband had been cheating with a coworker.
浮気うわき がばれる for an affair to be found out
His affair was discovered, and she was furious.
浮気うわき を 疑うたが う to suspect someone of cheating
He's been acting strange lately, so I can't help suspecting he's cheating.
〈 人ひと〉 〉 に 浮気うわき される to be cheated on by someone
I was deeply hurt after being cheated on by my girlfriend.
浮気うわき を 許ゆる す to forgive an affair
She couldn't forgive his affair.
Kanji 浮 floating, float, rise to surface Related words 不倫 specifically means adultery with a stronger moral or legal weight, while 浮気 more broadly covers any cheating or fickle affection, even outside marriage.
移り気 stresses the act of one's interests or affections shifting from one thing to another, whereas 浮気 often carries a lighter, more frivolous connotation of inconstancy.
浮気する directly means to cheat on a partner, while よろめく is a softer, more literary way of describing being tempted into an affair.
浮気する directly means to cheat or have an affair, while 手をつける is a softer, euphemistic way to hint at the same illicit relationship.
Opposites 一途 describes being single-mindedly devoted to one person or goal, the opposite of the fickle, easily-distracted nature implied by 浮気.
貞節 means marital fidelity and chastity, standing in direct contrast to 浮気's meaning of cheating on a partner.
Don't confuse with 二股 means secretly dating two people at once, while 浮気 is cheating on an existing partner with someone else, so the situations overlap but aren't identical.
浮気 specifically means cheating on a partner, while 気が多い just describes a fickle personality with many interests, not necessarily infidelity.
Word family adulteress; unfaithful woman
cheating heart; temptation to cheat
philandering nature; flirtatious disposition
cheating man; flirt
Written forms 浮うわ 気き Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling. The character 浮 suggests 'floating' or 'fickle', and 気 means 'spirit' or 'mind'.
ウワキ Usage <1%
上うわ 気き
out-dated kanji form
Out-dated kanji usage; rarely used in modern Japanese. Included for recognition of historical texts.
Etymology Compound of 浮 (uwa, 'floating, fickle') + 気 (ki, 'spirit, mind'). The reading uwa is a variant of uki. The word originally described a light, changeable heart, later narrowing to romantic infidelity.
cheater; unfaithful person; adulterer
adulterous partner; lover in an affair
