Illustration: A visiting repair technician walks up the final stretch of a narrow residential lane toward a house with its front door open. A resident waits at the entrance beside a detached sliding screen, lifting a hand in welcome.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

赴おもむく

omomuku

to head toward, to go

Example sentences

  1. 決心けっしんがつきかねたので、私わたしは感情かんじょうのおもむくままに行動こうどうした。

    I couldn’t decide what to do, so I just followed my heart.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. しばしば、彼女かのじょは自みずから赴おもむかねばならなかった。

    More often than not, she had to go in person.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 戦場せんじょうに赴おもむくカメラマンが不発弾ふはつだんの危険性きけんせいを知しらないのは不思議ふしぎだ、新聞社しんぶんしゃは教育きょういくを怠おこたってる。

    It is strange that a cameraman heading for a war-zone should not know about the danger of unexploded shells. The newspaper company is being negligent in its training.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 赴

  • 赴proceed; getOnフKunおもむく

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