Illustration: Beside a stone-lined stream in a Japanese neighborhood park, water curls into a distinct whirlpool behind a broad submerged rock. Several fallen leaves and a thin trail of foam circle inward around its shallow central depression.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

渦うず

uzu

whirlpool, swirl

Example sentences

  1. 水みずが渦うずを巻まく

    water swirls (forms a vortex)

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  2. 渦うずが巻まく

    a vortex forms

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  3. 水平方向すいへいほうこうの大おおきさは数百すうひゃくmから数百すうひゃくkmに及および、大おおきな渦うずを巻まきながら移動いどうする。

    Horizontally, it covers a distance of several hundred meters to several hundred kilometers, and moves in a big vortex.

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

Kanji in 渦

  • 渦whirlpool; eddyOnカKunうず

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