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残らず
のこらず
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completely, without exception
Nokorazu is 残る (nokoru, “to remain”) plus ず (zu, negative continuative ending).
Taken apart
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Written with 残
In a sentence
秘密を残らず打ち明けなさい。
Make a clean breast of your secrets.
彼は有り金を残らず奪われた。
He was robbed of all his money.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “残(のこ)る (nokoru, “to remain”) + ず (zu, negative continuative ending)”
Source: Wiktionary: 残らず (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.