First opened Thursday, July 11, 2024

捜索

そうさく

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

search (esp. for someone or something missing, investigation)

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 捜索

In a sentence

事故(じこ)の原因(げんいん)はまだ捜索(そうさく)中(ちゅう)だ。
The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
Tatoeba #150852, translation #263704
警察(けいさつ)はその家(いえ)を徹底的(てっていてき)に捜索(そうさく)した。
The police thoroughly searched the house.
Tatoeba #176250, translation #238214

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese: Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

捜索

Taken apart

In a sentence

What Wiktionary says

What the labels mean

Also read そうさく

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