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漂う

ただよう

to drift, to float

Mnemonic

Out on the water with nobody rowing and nowhere in particular to be. Ta-da ただ, a small boat on the lake, and there it stays: ただよう.

Worth knowing

Also used of a smell or a mood hanging in the air. 浮かぶ うかぶ is floating as in staying up. 漂う is floating and being carried along with it.

Built from

drift, float
氵 water on the left with something riding on top of it, going wherever the water happens to go.

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