噴水

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 噴水 is read as ふんすい and is a noun for a fountain installation or the water display produced by it.
• Basic usage: Location appears in 広場の中央に噴水がある, while illumination appears in 噴水が照らされる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Installation and water display
  • Context can focus on the constructed fountain as a whole or on its visible jets of water.
• Difference from the verb 噴く
  • 噴水 is the noun fountain, not the general action of liquid or gas spurting out.