Illustration: A gust passes through a Japanese school courtyard just as a child finishes gathering fallen leaves. Several leaves rise from the loose pile and curl around the child at different heights, their stems and broad surfaces turned in changing directions.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

舞まう

mau

to flutter, to swirl

Example sentences

ヒラヒラと桜さくらの花はなが舞まっている。もうお花見はなみの季節きせつも終おわりだな。
It looks like cherry blossom-viewing season is at an end. You can see the petals fluttering down.
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風かぜでほこりが舞まっていた。
Dust was blowing in the wind.
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木この葉はが庭にわでくるくる舞まっていた。
The leaves whirled in the yard.
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Kanji in 舞

舞dance; flitOnブKunまう・まい

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