Illustration: In a school gymnasium, a rubber ball springs upward from the wooden floor beside a crouching child. The ball has cleared the floor, its shadow directly beneath it, while a few nearby dust specks still scatter from the impact point. The child’s open hands wait above for its return.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

弾はずむ

hazumu

to bounce, to spring

Example sentences

  1. ゴムのボールは弾力性だんりょくせいがあるから弾はずむ。

    A rubber ball bounces because it is elastic.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ボールははずんで塀へいを飛とび越こえた。

    The ball bounced over the wall.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これらのまりは、非常ひじょうに弾性だんせいが高たかくてよく弾はずんだ。

    Temari balls are very elastic and bounce well.

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

Kanji in 弾

  • 弾bullet; twangOnダン・タンKunひく・はずむ・たま

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