WORD DETAIL
旺盛
おうせい
Examples
Included kanji
Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
旺盛(おうせい) describes vigorous strength, appetite, or drive. The examples use a sentence-final predicate and a compound connective. - Basic usage:
食欲が旺盛だdirectly judges appetite;好奇心旺盛でlinks strong curiosity to later willingness to try things.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Predicating appetite and linking curiosity to action
- The first closes a sentence with subject
食欲が; the second forms a unit with好奇心and continues. The strength belongs to the named drive, not indiscriminately to the whole person.
- The first closes a sentence with subject

