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飾り気 (kazarike) Japanese meaning: affectation | Kotomora
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かの
女じょ
は
飾かざ
り
気け
が
なく
て
、
とても
話はな
し
やすい
。
She is unpretentious and very easy to talk to.
This room has no showiness at all.
Expressions 飾かざ り 気け のない plain; unaffected; natural; unpretentious; frank; candid Kanji 飾 decorate, ornament, adorn Related words 気取り stresses a deliberate, self-conscious effort to look impressive, while 飾り気 refers more broadly to a showy or decorative quality itself.
虚飾 is a formal, literary word for false ostentation, whereas 飾り気 is an everyday term that often appears in the negative to mean 'plain' or 'unpretentious'.
見せかけ focuses on a false outward appearance meant to deceive, while 飾り気 is about surface embellishment or the lack of it in one's manner.
Written forms 飾かざ り 気け Usage 87%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency news and high priority.
飾かざ りけ Usage 8%
Mixed kana spelling; less common but still encountered.
かざりけ Usage 5%
Etymology Compound of 飾り (decoration) + 気 (spirit, mood, or tendency). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination naturally yields the sense of 'a tendency toward decoration or showiness'.
