Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a resident reaches for a towel just as a gust pulls it sideways from the laundry basket. Their hair, shirt hem, and the laundry already hanging from the pole all stream in the same direction.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

吹ふく

fuku

to blow (of wind)

Example sentences

  1. 風かぜが吹ふいている。

    The wind is blowing.

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  2. 風かぜは南みなみへ吹ふく。

    The wind blows south.

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  3. あの日ひは強つよい風かぜが吹ふいていました。

    There was a strong wind that day.

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Kanji in 吹

  • 吹blow; breatheOnスイKunふく

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