Illustration: At a community science workshop, a woman investigates why one handmade waterwheel stalls. Beside the working trough stand several earlier wheel prototypes with different paddle angles, each damp from testing.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

探たん究きゅう

tankyuu

to investigate deeply

Example sentences

  1. 虚妄きょもうを批判ひはんし、真理しんりを探究たんきゅうしました。

    I investigated the truth and judged falsehoods.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 人間にんげんの真理しんりの探究たんきゅうに対たいして不朽ふきゅうの貢献こうけんをした書物しょもつを、我々われわれは偉大いだいな書物しょもつと呼よぶのである。

    Those books which have made a lasting contribution to man’s quest for truth, we call great books.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. このように米こめの使途しとの比重ひじゅうとして、酒造さけづくりが大おおきくなってきた地方ちほうでは、食用しょくようでなく酒造さけづくりに向むいている米こめの探究たんきゅうが盛さかんに行おこなわれるようになった。

    In the regions where rice came to be used for sake brewing more and more in this way, the study of rice which was good for sake brewing rather than meals came to be made actively.

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

Kanji in 探究

  • 探grope; searchOnタンKunさぐる・さがす
  • 究research; studyOnキュウ・クKunきわめる

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