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うく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, intransitive)
1. to float
2. to become merry; to be cheerful
3. to become loose; to become unsteady
4. to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you); to feel out of place
5. to be frivolous; to be uncertain
6. to have (time, money, etc.) left over; to be saved (e.g. money)
7. to have no basis; to be unreliable
Alt. forms
浮うく
88%
うく
11%
Pitch accent
う
く
Top 13000
Conjugations...Used in: 970
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
to have one's teeth set on edge; to get loose teeth
to float in the air; to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided
set one's teeth on edge
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Examples (10 in total)
Wood floats.
A stone does not float.
Wood floats, but iron sinks.
Particles of dust float in the atmosphere.
A white cloud is floating in the blue summer sky.
Tom saw something floating in the pool.
He can't even float let alone swim.
We learned that oil floats on water.
Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the lake.
One quality of oil is that it floats on water.