音読み: フン
訓読み: ふく
画数: 15
部首: くちへん（口）
Meaning
Erupt / Spout / Emit
- Basic forms
- 噴く — spout; gush / base form
- 噴きます — spouts; gushes / masu form
- 噴いた — spouted; gushed / ta form
- 噴いて — spouting … / te form
- 噴かない — do not spout / negative
- 噴けば — if (something) spouts / conditional
- Common expressions
- 血を噴く — spurt blood
- 蒸気を噴く — emit steam
- その冗談に噴き出した — burst out laughing at the joke
- More
- 噴いている — is spouting / state
噴く（ふく） is a godan intransitive verb. It means to forcefully eject liquid, gas, or emotion, and is used both literally (steam, blood) and figuratively (sudden laughter).
- 噴火 — volcanic eruption
- 噴水 — fountain
- 噴煙 — smoke/plume from a volcano
- 噴く — to gush out; to spout
- 噴射 — jet spray; propulsion
With the mouth radical 口 on the left and the sound element 賁（ホン／フン）, 噴 conveys something bursting out — like smoke, water, or words forced out with power.