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Meanings
Noun
1. wave; billow; ripple; breaker; swell
From somewhere, the sound of waves could be heard.
2. ups and downs
Her grades go up and down.
3. (something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; succession of changes
Let's catch this wave of growth!
4. tendency; (new) wave
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (67 in total)
ripple (on water); wavelets; ripple (e.g. of uneasiness); unrest; disturbance
surfing
waving heads (of grain)
whitecaps; white-crested waves; thief
tsunami; tidal wave
ripple (on water); wavelet
surging crowd; wave of humanity; stampede
raging waves; stormy seas; hardships; troubles; adversities
giant tsunami (over 3m in height according to the JMA definition); giant tidal wave
to dash against (of waves); to billow; to roll; to wave (e.g. in the wind); to heave; to pound (of a heart)
ripples on a river
high waves; heavy seas
salt; crest of a wave; flowerlike patterns on waves in the Japan Sea in winter
clashing waves; tides in narrow sea straits
bigger wave (when there are multiple waves); larger wave
ripple (on water); wavelets; ripple (e.g. of uneasiness); unrest; disturbance
water's edge; beach; foreshore
billow; surge; large wave
wind and waves; discord; trouble; hardships
to go with the flow; to go with the times
wavy form; ripply shape
the sound of waves
interval between the waves; gap between waves
wave crest; whitecaps
sea spray; spindrift
to cut one's way through the waves
wavy line
wavy line
rising sea waves from late May to early June
backwash; rip current; stern wave; drawback (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave trough reaches land before a crest)
choppy seas; head sea
transverse wave; beam sea
sea route
Iwanami (publisher); Iwanami
corrugated
sea wall; breakwater
rough waves; raging waves; stormy seas
incoming wave; surf; swash; comber; beachcomber
choppy sea; chopping waves
corrugated sheet; corrugated plate
high waves which rise during the dog days of summer
breaker; breaking wave; broken sea
longitudinal wave
wave-dissipating concrete block; tetrapod
curly bracket
wave dash (punctuation); tilde
(seaside) breakers
smaller waves; lesser waves
The world is at peace
offshore wave; deep water wave
old age; oncoming age
sleeping while on a sea voyage; falling asleep to the sound of the ocean
incoming wave
deep rivers move in silence; shallow brooks are noisy; those who know little talk much
leading wave (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave crest reaches land before a trough)
waves in narrow straits
wave (on the water's surface)
Fujinami Station (Ishikawa)
Maenami Station
Matsunami Station
Yanami Station
Examples (36 in total)
The waves are high.
The waves come in.
I was doused by a wave.