うく

Common word

  1. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to float

    • それから彼女はあおむけに浮いていた。
      Then she was floating on her back.
  2. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to become merry, to be cheerful

  3. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to become loose, to become unsteady

  4. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to feel out of it, to be cut off (e.g. from those around you), to feel out of place
    colloquial

    • 若者ばかりのそのコンサート会場で、おじさんの私はすっかり周りから浮いていた。
      Being at the concert hall full of young kids made an old duffer like me feel out of tune.
  5. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to be frivolous, to be uncertain

  6. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to have (time, money, etc.) left over, to be saved (e.g. money)

  7. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, intransitive verb

    to have no basis, to be unreliable