Illustration: On a quiet residential street, a child stands on tiptoe beside a public postbox while a parent steadies them at the waist. The child's fingertips release an envelope halfway through the mail slot, its lower edge already disappearing inside.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

投とう函かん

toukan

to mail, to post

Used for placing mail in a postbox. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

必かならずこのハガキを投函とうかんしなさい。
Post this card without fail.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
通常つうじょうは年末ねんまつに投函とうかんし元日がんじつに配達はいたつする。
The nengajo is usually posted at the end of the year and delivered on New Year’s Day.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
この手紙てがみを投函とうかんしてくれませんか。
Will you mail this letter for me?
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 投函

投throw; discardOnトウKunなげる
函box (archaic)OnカンKunはこ・いれる

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