浮き輪

Japanese

Kanji in this term
浮	輪
う Grade: S	わ Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

浮き (uki, “floating”) +‎ 輪 (wa, “ring”)

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) うきわ [ùkíwá] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝkʲiɰᵝa̠]

Noun

浮き輪 (hiragana うきわ, katakana ウキワ, rōmaji ukiwa)

a life-buoy; a life ring
- 1991 March 15, Takahashi, Rumiko, “ＰＡＲＴパート.５　水みずの中なかの根こん性じょう [PART.5 Spirit in the Water]”, in らんま½ [Ranma ½], volume 14 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 84:
  おい…ウキワでもダメなのか…⁉
  Oi… Ukiwa demo dame na no ka…⁉
  Hey… You can’t float even with a lifebuoy…⁉

Usage notes

This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ウキワ.

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