Illustration: In a small apartment's tatami room, a person pauses halfway through folding laundry because a curious bulge is moving beneath the kotatsu quilt. One corner of the quilt lifts, and a nearby cushion has been nudged aside, but nothing identifiable emerges.

なにやら

naniyara

something, some kind of

Example sentences

本ほんのすみになにやら書かき込こんである。
Something is written in the corner of the book.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
何なにやら白しろい物ものが浮ういている。
There seems to be something white floating (there).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
彼女かのじょは何なにやら呟つぶやいている。
She’s muttering something.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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