軽い

かるい
light

Reading

Readingかるい
N5 VocabJLPT N5adj-i
Kanji軽

Meanings

  1. light
  1. light (i.e. not heavy)adj-i
  2. feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily)
  3. light (i.e. of foot)adj-i
  4. effortless
  5. nimble
  6. agile
  7. non-seriousadj-i
  8. minor
  9. unimportant
  10. trivial
  11. slightadj-i
  12. small
  13. gentle
  14. soft
  15. easy
  16. lighthearted (e.g. joke)
  17. easyadj-i
  18. simple
  19. indiscriminateadj-i

Synonyms

ライト軽量

Antonyms

重い

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

ペットボトルは軽くなったよな
ぺっとぼとるはかるくなったよなPlastic bottles got lighter.
軽くて片手におさまるのがポイント
かるくてかたてにおさまるのがぽいんとLight and fits in one hand, that's the point.
それこそ、鳥のようではなく、羽毛のように軽く、
それこそ、とりのようではなく、うもうのようにかるく、So, not like a bird, but light as feathers,

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

軽
い

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 軽い

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked