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Nature & Environment

ぱきぱき

paki-paki

Thin ice cracking underfoot

The crisp, sharp cracking of thin ice or frost — stepping on frozen puddles in winter, icicles snapping off, or a thin ice sheet breaking apart.

💡Walking on frozen puddles in winter — 'The thin ice cracked paki-paki under my boots.'

Example

薄い氷がぱきぱきと割れた。

The thin ice cracked paki-paki.

Quiz yourself

The frozen puddle ___ cracked as we stepped on it.

凍った水たまりが足で踏むと○○と割れた。

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