Illustration: A bicycle repair worker has come from the shop to an elderly customer's apartment building. Still carrying a compact tool case, the worker steps through the open courtyard gate toward the customer, who waits beside a bicycle with a flat rear tire.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

出で向むく

demuku

to go to, to head for

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしがそこに出向でむく必要ひつようがありますか。

    Do I need to go there?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ゴールデンウィーク連休中れんきゅうちゅうには、多おおくのボランティアが地震じしんと津波つなみの被害ひがいを受うけた東北地方とうほくちほうへ出向でむいた。

    During the Golden Week holidays, many volunteers went to the quake and tsunami-hit areas in Tohoku.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 南みなみらはこの日ひも本山ほんざんに出向でむき、労働者ろうどうしゃを説得せっとくした。

    Again, Minami and others went to Honzan on that day and persuaded the workers.

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

Kanji in 出向

  • 出exit; leaveOnシュツ・スイKunでる・だす・いでる
  • 向face; tend towardOnコウKunむく・むい・むける

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