Illustration: Beside a narrow residential canal, a child crouches on the paved bank and watches a fallen leaf carrying a tiny beetle. The leaf rests flat on the water, loosely angled across the gentle ripples, with other floating petals following the same current.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

漂ただよう

tadayou

to drift, to float

Example sentences

気球ききゅうは西にしの方ほうへ漂ただよっていった。
The balloon floated off into the west.
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そのボートは大海たいかいを漂ただよっていた。
The boat was drifting in the ocean.
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氷こおりは毎日相当まいにちそうとうな距離きょりを漂ただようこともある。
The ice may drift considerable distances each day.
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Kanji in 漂

漂drift; float (on liquid)OnヒョウKunただよう

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