いき (iki)

chic, style, purity, essence

  • JLPT N1
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Meaning

(いき, iki) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “chic, style, purity, essence”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 12

かれいき格好かっこうをしている

He looks smart.

彼はアメリカ生まれの生粋のアメリカ人だが、日本人なのやらアメリカ人なのやら分からないくらい、考え方が日本人的だ。

He is a genuine born-in-the-USA American, but his ways of thinking are so much like those of Japanese people that we (almost) can't tell whether he is a Japanese or an American.

粋ですね。

It's very stylish.

私は純粋です。

I am innocent.