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らいめい
雷鳴
が
き
聞
こえる
よりも
さき
先
に
いなびかり
稲光
が
み
見
える
のは、
ひかり
光
が
おと
音
よりも
はや
速
い
からである。
We see lightning before we hear thunder because light travels faster than sound.
Conjugations and inflections
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Words
ら い め い 0
noun
thunder
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き こ え る 0
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be heard; to be audible
2. to be said to be; to be reputed
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expression
1. in comparison to  (see also: より; emphatic form of より)
2. rather than
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さ き に 1 さ き に 0
adverb, noun
before; earlier than; first; ahead; beyond; away; previously; recently
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い な び か り 3
noun
(flash of) lightning
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み え る 2
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be seen; to be visible; to be in sight
2. to look; to seem; to appear
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ひ か り 3
noun
light
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お と 0
noun, noun (suffix)
1. sound; noise; report
2. note  (music term)
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は や い 2
Most common form: 早い
1. fast; quick; hasty; brisk  (esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い)
2. early (in the day, etc.); premature  (esp. 早い)
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で あ る 3
be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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Kanji
雷
ライ   かみなり thunder   
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⻗
フ   あめ rain   
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田
デン   た rice field   
鳴
メイ   なく to chirp, to twitter   なる to sound, to ring   ならす to make ring   
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鳥
チョウ   とり bird   
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白
ハク   しろい white   しろ    しら-    
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ノ
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
丂
reach
灬
fire
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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聞
ブン   モン   きく to listen, to hear   きこえる to be heard   
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耳
ジ   みみ ear   
門
モン   かど gate   
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先
セン   さき ahead   
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⺧
whereupon by the ground
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土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
儿
legs
稲
トウ   いね rice plant   いな-    
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旧
キュウ    former, old   
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丨
stick   
⺤
つめ claw; fingernail   
禾
grain
光
コウ   ひかり light, sunshine   ひかる to shine, twinkle   
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小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
兀
one pair of legs
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
見
ケン   みる to see   みえる to be seen; to appear   みせる to show   
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目
ボク   モク   eye   ま-    め    
音
オン   イン   sound   おと    ね    
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立
リツ   リュウ   たつ to stand   たてる to build   
速
ソク   はやい fast   はやまる be hasty   はやめる to expedite, to hasten   すみやか speedy   
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束
ソク   たば bundle   たばねる to tie in a bundle   
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木
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
⻌
move
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