Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a small handkerchief has slipped free while a resident hangs laundry. A gentle breeze carries it just beyond their reaching fingers, its corners lifting in different directions and its thin center bending into loose folds.

ひらひら

hirahira

fluttering

Example sentences

大おおきな雪片せっぺんがひらひらと降ふった。
Snow fell in large flakes.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
風かぜが吹ふくたびに、桜さくらの花はなびらが、ひらひらと舞まい降おりてました。
The cherry blossoms flutter down whenever the wind blows.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
風かぜで紙かみがひらひらと舞まい上あがった。
The paper fluttered up in the wind.
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