Illustration: In a bakery kitchen, an apprentice secretly eats a cream puff from a tray prepared for sale. The supervisor has turned enough to see the puff halfway to the apprentice’s mouth and the cream already on their cheek.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

看かん過か

kanka

to overlook, to turn a blind eye

Example sentences

  1. 開館かいかんまでの前史ぜんしとして、奈良博覧会ならはくらんかいの存在そんざいを看過かんかすることはできない。

    We can not overlook the existence of Nara Exhibition as a history prior to the inauguration of the museum.

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

  2. その誤用ごようを看過かんかしたことは、階級社会かいきゅうしゃかいの軍隊ぐんたいでも、部下ぶかの鴎外おうがいに責任せきにんがまったく無ないといえない。

    Even in the army’s hierarchical society, Ogai cannot be said to bear no responsibility as a subordinate for overlooking that misuse.

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

  3. しかし、時代じだいが下くだった明以降みんいこうには必かならずしもこの条件じょうけんに当あてはまらない文人ぶんじんが多数出現たすうしゅつげんしているという点てんも看過かんかできない。

    However, it also cannot be overlooked that since the Ming period, many men of letters who did not necessarily meet these criteria have appeared.

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

Kanji in 看過

  • 看watch over; seeOnカンKunみる
  • 過overdo; exceedOnカKunすぎる・すごす・あやまち

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