かる
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily)
2. light (i.e. of foot); effortless; nimble; agile
3. non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial
4. slight; small; gentle; soft; easy; lighthearted (e.g. joke)
5. easy; simple
6. indiscriminate
Kanji used
lightweight
Pitch accent
るい
Top 600
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
casual; doing something without taking it too seriously
having a loose tongue; being talkative; speaking without thinking; being unable to keep a secret
loose-tongued; talkative
quickly adaptable; pro-active
light-hearted; carefree
cheerfully working
cheerfully working; hasty
fast; brisk; careless; thoughtless; (of a woman) wanton; promiscuous
minor offense; minor offence
Examples (24 in total)
This chair is light.
The opposite of "heavy" is "light."
An airship is lighter than air.