Illustration: Outside a neighborhood kitchenware shop, the shopkeeper has arranged a tall stack of lightweight bowls on a narrow display stand. One foot of the stand has slipped partly off its small supporting wedge, leaving the whole display visibly tilted and wavering.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

揺ゆらぐ

yuragu

to waver, to become unstable

Often describes shaken trust, resolve, or authority. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 現在げんざい、学校教育がっこうきょういくへの信頼しんらいが揺ゆらいでいます。

    At present, trust in school education is wavering.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その緻密ちみつな方法ほうほうによる業績群ぎょうせきぐんは当時とうじにあっては異彩いさいを放はなっており、近現代きんげんだいになってからも、その学問的評価がくもんてきひょうかは揺ゆらぐことがない。

    His achievements of precise approaches stand out prominently among others of those days, and the academic value of his works never wavered in modern times and in the present day.

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

  3. 江戸時代後期えどじだいこうきには地方ちほうの飢饉ききんや都市部としぶでの打うち壊こわし、蝦夷地えぞちや長崎ながさきへの異国船いこくせんの来航らいこうなどで将軍権威しょうぐんけんいが揺ゆらいだ。

    In the second half of the Edo period, the authority of the Shogunate became shaky, affected by famine in the countryside, riots in the cities and the visits of foreign ships to Ezo district and Nagasaki.

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

Kanji in 揺

  • 揺swing; shakeOnヨウKunゆれる・ゆる・ゆらぐ

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