Illustration: Inside a small neighborhood watch-repair shop, a plainclothes detective crouches beside a forced-open display cabinet. Wearing disposable gloves, she studies a clear muddy shoeprint beneath the broken latch while an anxious shopkeeper points toward the empty watch stands.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

刑けい事じ

keiji

police detective

Example sentences

彼かれは刑事けいじだ。
He is a detective.
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その泥棒どろぼうは刑事けいじを見みると走はしって逃にげた。
The thief ran away at the sight of a detective.
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男おとこは刑事けいじに銃じゅうを向むけた。
The man aimed a gun at the detectives.
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Kanji in 刑事

刑punish; penaltyOnケイ
事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる

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