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Send Escort E.G Road Transport Farewell Kana 送

Kanji
Onyomi ソウ
Kunyomi おく.る
English escort, send
Examples 放送(ほうそう): broadcast; broadcasting
輸送(ゆそう): transport; transportation
送る(おくる): (1) to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch (2) to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person) (3) to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury (4) to spend (time); to live one's life (5) to pass (down the line) (6) to affix okurigana
見送り(みおくり): seeing one off; farewell; escort
見送る(みおくる): (1) to see off (e.g. to the station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to farewell (2) to see out; to send off (3) to let pass; to wait and see; to continue (e.g. in legal contexts) (4) to let a pitch go by (baseball); to watch a batted ball go into the stands
運送(うんそう): transport; freight; shipping
送金(そうきん): remittance; sending money
郵送(ゆうそう): mailing
送料(そうりょう): postage; carriage
送別(そうべつ): farewell; send-off
送り仮名(おくりがな): kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word (may inflect); declensional kana ending
回送(かいそう): forwarding
JLPT Level 4
Jouyou Grade 3
Frequency 311
Components 天: heavens; sky; imperial
辶: walk; walking; road radical variant (no. 162)
Number of Strokes 9
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 162
Radical Strokes 7
Radical Reading しんにょう・しんにゅう
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword send off
Koohii Story 1 The St Bernard with devilish animal horns must be non other than Cerberus, guard dog of the netherworld. In this frame Cerberus is seen along the road to hell, escorting those who have been sent off to join Hades in his realm.
Koohii Story 2 The woolly mammoth got quite a send off before he wandered up that road never to be seen alive again.

Tags: jlpt.n4, grade3, kanjifreq251-500

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