Meanings
Verb (5-dan, ぶ, intransitive)
1. to fly; to soar
esp. 飛ぶ
2. to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop
esp. 跳ぶ
3. to spatter; to scatter; to splash; to fly (e.g. of sparks)
4. to hurry; to rush
5. to flee; to run off; to escape
6. to disappear; to vanish; to fade; to thin out
7. to break off; to come off; to fall off; to blow (of a fuse)
8. to be sent out (of an order); to fly (of false rumours, catcalls, etc.)
9. to come flying (of a punch, kick, etc.)
10. to be missing (of a page, stitch, etc.); to skip; to jump (e.g. of a conversation)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear
to fly (with great force); to blast (e.g. into the sky); to lack common sense; to be extremely surprised (by)
to fly; to race away; to vanish; to disappear; to rush over; to hurry over
Examples (64 in total)
I can fly.
I'll be flying to Germany.
Look before you leap.
There are also fish that fly.
Birds fly with their wings.
Some kinds of birds can't fly.
The pigeon has flown away.
Birds fly long distances.
The birds are flying high in the sky.
Look at that flying bird.
The birds were flying in a group.
A plane is flying above the city.
I plan to fly to London tomorrow.
The rocket travels at a tremendous speed.
The bee flew to the flower.
I will fly to N.Y., or anywhere else.
Have you ever seen an elephant fly?
The helicopter is flying very low.
Bees are flying among the flowers.
Our plane was flying above the clouds.
The bee flew out the window.
Clouds are flying across the sky.
The rocket blasted out of the atmosphere.
I'm flying to Hanoi tomorrow.
I can teach you how to fly.
I'm going to fly to the moon.
He didn't jump high enough to win a prize.
Birds learn to fly by instinct.
We were flying about six hours.
Tom is a pigeon that flies very fast.
Lots of butterflies are flying around the plants.
The plane flew away in the direction of Hong Kong.
The eagle spread its wings ready for flight.
The airplane is capable of supersonic speeds.
A bee flew out of the window.
Superman flies as fast as a rocket.
We flew from New York to St. Louis by way of Chicago.
The bee flew to the flower and drank the nectar.
The birds flew south in search of warmth.
No one has seen the bird fly.
Just imagine that we can fly like birds.
It is in the nature of birds to fly and build nests.
I tried flying from the top of the tree.
Our plane was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound.
This plane flies between Osaka and Hakodate.
This pigeon flew from San Francisco to New York.
We saw a jet plane fly across the sky.
From Algeria, you can fly to places like France and Spain.
The birds flew towards a high tower.
He likes to watch the birds fly above his head.
He heard a strange sound and sprang out of bed.
I saw a bird flying over a tree.
I saw a lot of birds flying toward the south.
If I were a bird, I would want to fly to your side.
This bird's large wings enable it to fly very fast.
I saw something very bright fly across the night sky.
Then they fly round to the Indian Ocean and down to Antarctica.
A bee is buzzing around.
This plane can fly at 800 miles an hour.
A gigantic bird came flying toward him.
Now you're flying over the Alps.
The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour.
They fly about 35,000 km in eight months.