Illustration: Outside a Japanese community hall being prepared for an emergency neighborhood meal, a tired organizer strides between arriving helpers while speaking into a phone. One arm carries borrowed extension cords, and the other directs a volunteer pushing a cart of rice cookers toward the entrance.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

奔ほん走そう

honsou

to work tirelessly for something

Example sentences

  1. 足尾鉱毒事件あしおこうどくじけんでは田中正造たなかしょうぞうを助たすけ、農民救済運動のうみんきゅうさいうんどうに奔走ほんそう。

    In the Ashio Copper Mine Mineral Pollution Incident, he supported Shozo TANAKA and devoted effort to relief work for the peasants.

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

  2. 立法りっぽうに当あたっては、品川弥二郎しながわやじろうや平田東助ひらたとうすけが奔走ほんそうしている。

    Yajiro SHINAGAWA and Tosuke HIRATA were busily engaged in legislation.

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

  3. また、チャウ自身じしんも日本にっぽんに渡わたって奔走ほんそうし、その人生じんせいを民族独立運動みんぞくどくりつうんどうに捧ささげた。

    Chau also went to Japan himself and made every effort to further the independence movement, devoting his life to it.

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

Kanji in 奔走

  • 奔run; bustleOnホンKunはしる
  • 走runOnソウKunはしる

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