活発

Kana: かっぱつ

lively

Example sentence

この子はとても活発です。

このこはとてもかっぱつです。

This child is very lively.

What 活発 means

活発 (かっぱつ) is a Japanese word meaning “lively”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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