Illustration: At a Japanese railway station’s lost-property counter, an employee holds a recovered umbrella beside a photograph supplied by its owner. The photograph clearly shows the same crooked handle, repaired seam and small charm hanging from the strap.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

照しょう合ごう

shougou

to check against, to compare

Example sentences

  1. 警察けいさつは、銃じゅうの指紋しもんとドアに付着ふちゃくした指紋しもんを照合しょうごうした。

    The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしたちは学生がくせいの成績せいせきの照合しょうごうをした。

    We made a check of the student' records.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 時系列じけいれつに連続れんぞくした西暦せいれきに比くらべて過去かこを正確せいかくにあらわすには元号げんごうを全すべて覚おぼえるか照合しょうごう作業さぎょうが必要ひつようである。

    Compared with the western calendar, which continues in chronological order, the Japanese calendar requires people to remember all the gengo or to check them in a table to have a clear picture of historical events.

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

Kanji in 照合

  • 照illuminate; shineOnショウKunてる・てらす・てれる
  • 合fit; suitOnゴウ・ガッ・カッKunあう・あい・あい-

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