How to say "ringing" in Japanese

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  • 高らかたからかCommon
    na-adjectiveCovers ringing as a quality of a sound: loud, clear and sonorous, resounding through the air. It characterizes how a voice or bell sounds rather than naming the ringing itself.
    Shades of earth are ringing through my open view inciting and inviting me.
  • 鳴りなりCommon
    nounThe noun for ringing itself — the sound something makes as it rings, such as a bell. Use it when 'ringing' is a thing you hear rather than a quality you describe.

For the descriptive sense — a sound that is loud, clear and sonorous — use 「高らか」; for ringing as a noun, the sound of something such as a bell, use 「鳴り」.

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