Meaning
にこやか (nikoyaka) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “smiling, beaming (face)”.
Example sentences 9
彼らはにこやかに挨拶を交わしたけどね。
They greeted each other with smiles, though.
彼の顔はにこやかに輝いた.
His face was lighted by a smile.
彼女はにこやかな笑顔で迎えてくれた.
She greeted me with a radiant smile.
メリーのにこやかな顔は彼女の幸せを表していた。
Mary's smiling face let everyone know that she was happy.
「怒ってない。ほら見て、このにこやかな笑顔」「それは作り笑いっていうんですよ」
"I'm not angry. Look, see this smiling face?" "That's what they call a forced smile!"
「怒ってない。ほら見て、このにこやかな笑顔」（それは作り笑いっていうんですよ）
"I'm not angry. Look, see this smiling face?" (That's what they call a forced smile!)
現場では終始にこやかであり、スタッフや俳優を怒ることなどは一度もなかったという。
He was genial throughout on set, and never once got angry at the staff or actors.
式はあっという間で、左右からは紳士淑女に礼を述べられ、正面では牧師がにこやかに笑っている次第だ。
It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front.
『十訓抄』7-27には、若い頃の清盛について「人がとんでもない不都合な振る舞いをしても、冗談と思うことにした」「やったことがちっともおかしくなくても、相手への労わりとしてにこやかに笑い、とんでもない誤りをしても、役立たずと声を荒げることはない」「冬の寒い時に身辺に奉仕する幼い従者を自分の衣の裾の方に寝かせ、彼らが朝寝坊をしていたらそっと床から抜け出して存分に寝かせてやった」「最下層の召使いでも、彼の家族や知り合いの見ている前では一人前の人物として扱ったので、その者は大変な面目と感じて心から喜んだ」という逸話が記されている。
In "Jukkinsho" Section 7-27, the young Kiyomori was described as a person who 'thought it was a joke if someone did something quite unreasonable,' 'gently smiled to be kind to someone who did something that was not funny at all, and also never raised his voice to scorn someone as being useless even when that person had made a terrible mistake', 'let young attendants who served him during a cold winter sleep at the bottom of his clothes and let them sleep well if they overslept, by quietly getting out of the bed,' and 'respected a servant of the lowest rank as a person in front of the servant's family or acquaintances, and that servant was truly pleased as it was a great honor.'