"空気を読む" meaning in Japanese

See 空気を読む in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [kɯ̟ːkʲi o̞ jo̞mɯ̟]
Head templates: {{ja-verb|くうき を よむ|type=1}} 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)む • (kūki o yomu) godan (stem 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)み (kūki o yomi), past 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)んだ (kūki o yonda)) Forms: 空気を読む [canonical] (ruby: (くう), (), ()), kūki o yomu [romanization], 空気を読み [stem] (ruby: (くう), (), ()), 空気を読んだ [past] (ruby: (くう), (), ()), no-table-tags [table-tags], 空気を読ま [error-unrecognized-form], くうきをよま [error-unrecognized-form], kūki o yoma [error-unrecognized-form], 空気を読み [error-unrecognized-form], くうきをよみ [error-unrecognized-form], kūki o yomi [error-unrecognized-form], 空気を読む [error-unrecognized-form], くうきをよむ [error-unrecognized-form], kūki o yomu [error-unrecognized-form], 空気を読め [error-unrecognized-form], くうきをよめ [error-unrecognized-form], kūki o yome [error-unrecognized-form], 空気を読まれる [passive], くうきをよまれる [passive], kūki o yomareru [passive], 空気を読ませる [causative], 空気を読ます [causative], くうきをよませる [causative], くうきをよます [causative], kūki o yomaseru [causative], kūki o yomasu [causative], 空気を読める [potential], くうきをよめる [potential], kūki o yomeru [potential], 空気を読もう [volitional], くうきをよもう [volitional], kūki o yomō [volitional], 空気を読まない [negative], くうきをよまない [negative], kūki o yomanai [negative], 空気を読まず [continuative, negative], くうきをよまず [continuative, negative], kūki o yomazu [continuative, negative], 空気を読みます [formal], くうきをよみます [formal], kūki o yomimasu [formal], 空気を読んだ [perfective], くうきをよんだ [perfective], kūki o yonda [perfective], 空気を読んで [conjunctive], くうきをよんで [conjunctive], kūki o yonde [conjunctive], 空気を読めば [conditional, hypothetical], くうきをよめば [conditional, hypothetical], kūki o yomeba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to sense or guess the mood or atmosphere of one's surroundings; to read the room Derived forms: 空気よめない (kūki yomenai), KY (alt: kēwai)
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "空気を読む",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読み",
      "roman": "kūki o yomi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んだ",
      "roman": "kūki o yonda",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-mu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ま",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよま",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yoma",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読み",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよみ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読む",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよむ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読め",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yome",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ませる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよませる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読める",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読もう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよもう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読みます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよみます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよんだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yonda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよんで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読めば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くうき を よむ",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)む • (kūki o yomu) godan (stem 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)み (kūki o yomi), past 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)んだ (kūki o yonda))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -mu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 3 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "kūki yomenai",
          "word": "空気よめない"
        },
        {
          "alt": "kēwai",
          "word": "KY"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sense or guess the mood or atmosphere of one's surroundings; to read the room"
      ],
      "id": "en-空気を読む-ja-verb-1atazG6U",
      "links": [
        [
          "mood",
          "mood"
        ],
        [
          "atmosphere",
          "atmosphere"
        ],
        [
          "read the room",
          "read the room"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[kɯ̟ːkʲi o̞ jo̞mɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "空気を読む"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kūki yomenai",
      "word": "空気よめない"
    },
    {
      "alt": "kēwai",
      "word": "KY"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "空気を読む",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読み",
      "roman": "kūki o yomi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んだ",
      "roman": "kūki o yonda",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "空",
          "くう"
        ],
        [
          "気",
          "き"
        ],
        [
          "読",
          "よ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-mu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ま",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよま",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yoma",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読み",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよみ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読む",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよむ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読め",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yome",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ませる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読ます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよませる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読める",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読もう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよもう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読まず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよまず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読みます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよみます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよんだ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yonda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読んで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよんで",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "空気を読めば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くうきをよめば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kūki o yomeba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くうき を よむ",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)む • (kūki o yomu) godan (stem 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)み (kūki o yomi), past 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)んだ (kūki o yonda))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese godan verbs",
        "Japanese godan verbs ending with -mu",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with を",
        "Japanese terms with 3 kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
        "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese verbs",
        "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sense or guess the mood or atmosphere of one's surroundings; to read the room"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mood",
          "mood"
        ],
        [
          "atmosphere",
          "atmosphere"
        ],
        [
          "read the room",
          "read the room"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[kɯ̟ːkʲi o̞ jo̞mɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "空気を読む"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 空気を読む meaning in Japanese (5.7kB)

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Mizenkei (\"imperfective\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Ren’yōkei (\"continuative\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Shūshikei (\"terminal\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Rentaikei (\"attributive\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Kateikei (\"hypothetical\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Meireikei (\"imperative\")'",
  "path": [
    "空気を読む"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "空気を読む",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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