Illustration: At the edge of a Japanese community baseball field, former teammates gather around a modest memorial table holding a portrait with a black mourning ribbon. They wear their old team jackets and lower their heads together.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

追つい悼とう

tsuitou

to commemorate the dead

Example sentences

  1. そのため現在げんざいでは、故人こじんの功績こうせきを称たたえ、追悼ついとうする意味合いみあいが強つよい。

    So, at present, it has strong implications of praising and commemorating the achievements done by the deceased.

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

  2. そして遭難慰霊碑前そうなんいれいひまえで行おこなわれた追悼ついとう式典しきてんに出席しゅっせきし献花けんかを行おこなった。

    He attended the memorial ceremony held in front of the distress memorial and offered flowers.

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

  3. 「祭まつり」と誤解ごかいされることもあるが、あくまでも故人こじんを追悼ついとうする仏教ぶっきょうの行事ぎょうじである。

    It is often misinterpreted as a festival, but it is actually a Buddhist memorial service for the deceased.

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

Kanji in 追悼

  • 追chase; drive awayOnツイKunおう
  • 悼lament; grieve overOnトウKunいたむ

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