Jisho

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5 Replies ・ Started by Luks_18 at 2021-05-20 20:52:30 UTC ・ Last reply by Sombrero1 at 2025-04-21 15:04:42 UTC
This is a discussion about いかす

Can this word mean "lovely" or "cute"?

While playing a video game, the character said "イカしたカップル", and it was subtitled as "...sweet and lovely couples..."
I never saw anything related to being "lovely" or "cute" while searching this word, most of the time is used as something stylish and cool

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Enoch at 2021-05-21 02:10:53 UTC

Idk

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Lyza at 2021-05-21 05:07:22 UTC

the english translation is hard to convey but ikasu mean they're kinda cool, fashionable. so it's talking about they (the couple) have that good look of a perfect (cool, fashionable) couple (sweet, lovely, smiley, heartwarming, bla bla) opposite to couple who dont look very happy, argue all the time, their hobbies doesnt fit. etc

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Luks_18 at 2021-05-22 20:18:02 UTC

thanks!

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elink at 2025-04-21 12:36:47 UTC

li’l addition: イカす is used in Splatoon for the equivalent of “Fresh!”

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Sombrero1 at 2025-04-21 15:04:42 UTC

研究社 新和英大辞典 第5版
いかす2 ローマ字
be (pretty) good; be great; be smart; *《口》 be cute; be neat; 《口》 be groovy; be funky.
►あの俳優, ちょっといかすね. Not a bad-looking actor! | That actor―cute isn't he?
・その髪型, あんまりいかさないな. That hairdo doesn't look so ┏good [great]. | That hairdo doesn't do much for you.

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