Illustration: At the edge of a rural irrigation pond, an adult casts a small stone toward the open water with a clear forward swing of the arm. The stone is airborne beyond the fingertips, while the other hand holds a few remaining pebbles. Concentric ripples from an earlier throw spread farther out.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

投とうじる

toujiru

to cast, to throw

Example sentences

  1. 反対票はんたいひょうを投とうじるつもりだ。

    I’m voting no.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 各人かくじんが１票ひょうずつを投とうじなければならない。

    Each man must cast a vote.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 同社どうしゃの看板かんばんを火ひに投とうじ、樽酒たるざけを飲のみ干ほし、『マキノトーキー社歌しゃか』を歌うたった。

    Participants threw the company’s signboard into fire, drank cask sake and sang "the company song of Makino Talkie."

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

Kanji in 投

  • 投throw; discardOnトウKunなげる

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