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漂う (ただよう): to drift about, to float, to hang in air — Japanese vocabulary

漂う is read ただよう and means "to drift about, to float, to hang in air". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

漂う

Reading
ただよう · tadayou
Translation
to drift about, to float, to hang in air
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
ただようが

Example

気球は西の方へ漂っていった。

ききゅうはにしのほうへただよっていった。

The balloon floated off into the west.

Kanji in this word

  • 漂 — Drift, Float (on Liquid)

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