First opened Friday, October 24, 2025

捕獲

ほかく

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).

capture, seizure

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 捕獲

In a sentence

私(わたし)たちは、昨日(きのう)、森(もり)に行(い)き、２頭(とう)の鹿(しか)を捕獲(ほかく)した。
We went hunting in the forest and caught two deer yesterday.
Tatoeba #166746, translation #247756
毛皮(けがわ)のコートのために動物(どうぶつ)を罠(わな)で捕獲(ほかく)するのは残酷(ざんこく)なことだ。
I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
Tatoeba #80176, translation #323541

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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.

Taken apart

In a sentence

What Wiktionary says

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