JLPT N2 Upper Intermediate
バブル
A physical bubble, or Japan’s Bubble Economy of the late 1980s
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バブル経済 the full term, "bubble economy"
バブル時代 the "Bubble Era"
1 Noun
A physical bubble
Refers to pockets of air or gas within a liquid, often describing soap bubbles or carbonated effervescence.
Example
この 入浴剤 を 入れる と 、 お 風呂 が バブル で いっぱい に なります 。
If you put in this bath bomb, the bath will fill with bubbles.
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2 Noun
The Bubble Economy
A shorthand for the period of inflated asset prices and extreme economic prosperity in Japan during the late 1980s.
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