First opened Sunday, June 19, 2005
雰囲気
ふんいき
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
atmosphere (e.g., musical), mood, ambiance
Fun'iki appeared in a physics book of 1827, translating Dutch lucht (“air”), before it came to mean “atmosphere”.
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Appeared in the book on physics 気海観瀾 (Kikai Kanran) of 1827. Until the end of the Edo period, the term was used as a translation of Dutch lucht (“air”). In the early Meiji period, it became common as a translation of English atmosphere, and in the late Meiji period, it changed to an abstract meaning as it is today.”
Source: Wiktionary: 雰囲気 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.