Illustration: At a neighborhood playground, a child grips a low horizontal bar with both hands and hangs beneath it, arms extended and shoes well clear of the sand. Their knees bend slightly as their body sways. A parent crouches nearby with open hands, ready to help but not touching.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぶら下さがる

burasagaru

to hang down, to dangle

Example sentences

  1. テーブルの上うえにはランプがぶら下さがっていた。

    There was a lamp hanging above the table.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その小ちいさな犬いぬが足あしにぶら下さがって来きても、大おおきな犬いぬは黙だまったままでした。

    The big dog remained calm as the small dog hung from its leg.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼女かのじょは天井てんじょうからぶら下さがっている自分じぶんの鶴つるの群ぐんに目めをやった。これは兄あにの雅弘まさひろが禎子さだこのためにつるしてくれたものだった。

    She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 下

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・さげる

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