How to say "wake" in Japanese

• 覚めるさめるJLPT N3approx.Common
  ichidan verb, intransitive verbFor waking up from sleep: use this when you yourself wake, as from a night's sleep. When you wake someone else, 起こす is the verb.
  その叫び声さけびごえで私は眠ねむりからさめた。↗

  The cry roused me from my sleep.
• 通夜つやCommon
  nounThis is the funeral sense of 'wake': an all-night vigil over a body, held before the funeral. It names the event, not the act of waking from sleep.
• 航跡こうせきCommon
  nounThe wake of a ship or aircraft: the trail of disturbed water or air left behind as it moves. A noun for the physical trail, unrelated to sleep.
• 轍わだちCommon
  nounReally a rut or wheel track: the groove wheels leave in a road. It corresponds to 'wake' only in the loose sense of a track left behind, and is seldom the word you want.
• 起こすおこすJLPT N4approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbTo wake someone else up — the counterpart of 覚める, used when you do the waking, as when rousing a sleeping person. When you wake yourself, 覚める is the verb.

Use 「覚める」 when you wake up yourself and 「起こす」 when you wake someone else; 通夜 is the funeral vigil, 航跡 the trail behind a ship or aircraft, and 轍 is really a wheel rut, only loosely 'wake'.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 覚めるさめるto wake
• 通夜つやall-night vigil over a body
• 航跡こうせきwake (of a ship or aircraft)
• 轍わだちrut
• 半通夜はんつやwake
• 前夜式ぜんやしきwake
• ウェーキwake (of a ship)
• 葬儀式そうぎしきfuneral ceremony
• お通夜おつやall-night vigil over a body
• 起こすおこすto wake
• 澪みおwake (of a ship)