Illustration: In the entrance courtyard of a small apartment building, a plainclothes detective crouches beside a trail of muddy shoeprints leading away from an emptied bicycle rack. They compare the tread with an uncaptioned photograph and examine a cut cable lock using gloved hands.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

探たん偵てい

tantei

detective

Example sentences

  1. トムは私立しりつ探偵たんていを雇やとった。

    Tom hired a private detective.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょは彼かれを探偵たんていだと言いった。

    She described him as a detective.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その男おとこは私立しりつ探偵たんていだとわかった。

    The man turned out to be a private detective.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 探偵

  • 探grope; searchOnタンKunさぐる・さがす
  • 偵spyOnテイ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store