響き

ひびき · hibiki · JLPT N2 · noun

sound

🔔 響き = hibiki: a bell's hi-BEE-kee ring that keeps echoing back

Sounds like 'he-bee-key' ringing out. Think of a bell's ring that lingers and returns as an echo. Hibiki covers both the echo and the resonant sound itself.

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