Illustration: On the wooden veranda of a family home, a child raises one hand and dangles a small stuffed fish from a cord pinched between two fingers. The cord is taut, and the fish hangs freely well below the hand, just above a household cat’s reaching paws.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぶら下さげる

burasageru

to hang, to dangle

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは首くびにカメラをぶら下さげているね。

    He has a camera around his neck.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 天秤棒てんびんぼうの両端りょうたんには商品しょうひんを入いれた桶おけや箱はこなどの容器ようきをぶら下さげる。

    Containers such as wooden buckets and/or boxes are carried at both ends of a pole.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また、江戸時代えどじだいには天秤棒てんびんぼうを担かついで、その両端りょうたんに売うりものをぶら下さげて担かついで運搬うんぱんすることがあった。

    In the Edo period, peddlers sometimes carried a yoke hanging their products from both ends of it for transport.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 下

  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・さげる

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