Illustration: At dusk in a quiet Japanese residential lane, a worried cat owner shows a neighbor a photograph of a distinctive bobtailed cat. The owner carries an empty pet carrier with its door open. Another neighbor checks beneath a parked bicycle, while someone farther along the lane peers behind a hedge.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

行方不明ゆくえふめい

yukuefumei

missing, whereabouts unknown

Example sentences

  1. トムは行方不明ゆくえふめいなの？

    Is Tom missing?

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  2. トムが月曜げつようから行方不明ゆくえふめいなんだ。

    Tom has been missing since Monday.

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  3. 行方不明ゆくえふめいの子供こどもを捜索そうさくしています。

    We are looking for a missing child.

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Kanji in 行方不明

  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう
  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた
  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 明bright; lightOnメイ・ミョウ・ミンKunあかり・あかるい・あかるむ

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