Illustration: At a small neighborhood café, a customer lifts the lid from an elegant serving bowl and discovers a neatly folded pair of clean socks inside. Their spoon stops halfway toward the bowl, their eyebrows draw together unevenly, and their other hand opens in a helpless questioning gesture.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

当とう惑わく

touwaku

to be bewildered, to be perplexed

Example sentences

彼かれは当惑とうわくしたようであった。
He looked bewildered.
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彼かれはその質問しつもんに当惑とうわくした。
He was puzzled at the question.
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彼かれは当惑とうわくして顔かおをしかめた。
He frowned in puzzlement.
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Kanji in 当惑

当hit; appropriateOnトウKunあたる・あたり・あてる
惑beguile; delusionOnワクKunまどう

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