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Nature & Environment

うようよ

uyo-uyo

Squirming and swarming in large numbers

Many small creatures squirming and milling around — fish in a pond, tadpoles, or crowds of tiny things drifting about.

💡Looking into a pond — 'The water was uyo-uyo with little fish.'

Example

池に魚がうようよいる。

The pond is swarming uyo-uyo with fish.

Quiz yourself

The pond was ___ teeming with little fish.

池に魚が○○いる。

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Intermediate