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How do you read 泡沫 in Japanese?
Small bubbles that quickly vanish.
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Give the reading beginning with u for bubbles on water.
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Bubbles on water, also an image of fleeting things. Four hiragana beginning with u.
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water radicals beside 包 and 末
泡 followed by water radical and 末 reading
fleeting bubbles four hiragana reading
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泡 has 8 strokes and the radical 水 (water). 沫 has 8 strokes and the radical 水 (water). Radicals are dictionary classifications. The shape-based search phrases below provide other lookup clues.
泡8 strokes / radical: 水 (water)
沫8 strokes / radical: 水 (water)
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The answer is
うたかた
utakata
泡沫
Understand the meaning
English translationBubbles / something fleeting
Bubbles on water, and by extension something fragile or short-lived, like a bubble that soon disappears.
See it in a sentence
流れに浮かぶ泡沫は、岸に着く前に消えてしまった。The bubbles drifting downstream disappeared before reaching the bank.
A way to remember
Hōmatsu is also correct. This question asks specifically for utakata, beginning with u.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 泡沫
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Using 泡沫
泡沫のように消える compares something fleeting to bubbles on water. It can describe a brief dream or experience in retrospect.
例：目覚めると、楽しかった夢は泡沫のように消えてしまった。
When I woke, the pleasant dream vanished like bubbles on water.
Reading and meaning in context
The word has literal and figurative senses. This quiz uses うたかた, but ほうまつ is also a reading; check the context when meeting it elsewhere.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 泡沫
Explanation checked on 2026-10-23. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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