Illustration: Inside a neighborhood Japanese police box, an officer sits across from a cyclist who witnessed a minor road collision. The witness uses a toy bicycle and two model cars on the tabletop to reconstruct what happened, moving one car across the bicycle's path.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

聴ちょう取しゅ

choushu

to question, to hear testimony

Often used in 事情聴取 for questioning about an incident. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. この件けんに関かんして杉山すぎやまは関係者かんけいしゃを一切処分いっさいしょぶんしなかったばかりか、事情じじょう聴取ちょうしゅすら行おこなわず、結果的けっかてきに事後了解じごりょうかいを与あたえた形かたちになっていた。

    Sugiyama, who failed to deal with the people involved or even conduct any investigations, gave the impression of having authorized the incident.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 提出ていしゅつとその内容ないよう、その後ごの反響はんきょうは伊藤いとうが存命中ぞんめいちゅうに本人ほんにんからの聴取ちょうしゅを交まじえて書かかれた『伊藤博文伝いとうひろぶみでん』などから明あきらかとなっている。

    The submission, the contents and the impact became clear from materials including "Hirobumi ITO Biography" which was written hearing from Ito himself while he was alive.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 警察けいさつは店員てんいんからの聴取ちょうしゅを始はじめた。

    The police began questioning the store clerk.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 聴取

  • 聴listen; headstrongOnチョウ・テイKunきく・ゆるす
  • 取takeOnシュKunとる・とり・とり-

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