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湧く

わく

to gush forth, to spring up (water); to well up (feelings, ideas); to breed, to swarm

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Examples

  1. この山ではきれいな水が湧く。

    このやまではきれいなみずがわく。

    Clear water springs up in this mountain.

  2. 話を聞いて、興味が湧いてきた。

    はなしをきいて、きょうみがわいてきた。

    Listening to the story, I started to get interested.

  3. 古い肉には虫が湧いていて、とても食べられなかった。

    ふるいにくにはむしがわいていて、とてもたべられなかった。

    The old meat was crawling with insects and was quite inedible.

Common patterns

水が湧く
water gushes out
興味が湧く
interest wells up
勇気が湧く
courage wells up

Memory tip

The base gloss mixed this up with its homophone: 沸く is "to boil, to get excited", while 湧く with the water radical is something welling up from below — spring water, or a feeling such as 興味 or 勇気.

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