Word Meaning 捜索

そうさく sousaku

捜索 is read as そうさく (sousaku) and means legally authorized search of a person, building, etc..

Meaning

English

  1. legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
  2. search (esp. for someone or something missing)
  3. manhunt

Reading

Kana

そうさく

Romaji

sousaku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 20 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Related Words 探す,捜査,隅々まで,隅から隅まで,隈なく,片っ端から,虱潰しに,調べる Rank 3857 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

捜索隊

そうさくたい

search party

捜索願

そうさくねがい

request for a police search

家宅捜索

かたくそうさく

house search (e.g. by the police)

家宅捜索令状

かたくそうさくれいじょう

search warrant

沈船捜索救助計画

ちんせんそうさくきゅうじょけいかく

Deep Submergence Systems Project

思索

しさく

speculation

探索

たんさく

search

検索

けんさく

looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

模索

もさく

groping (for)

自然文検索

しぜんぶんけんさく

searching with natural language

全文検索

ぜんぶんけんさく

full-text search

内容検索

ないようけんさく

content retrieval

Example Sentences

10

Tom filed a missing person's report.

The police have called off the search.

Do you have a search warrant?

We are looking for a missing child.

The police searched for the missing child.

The police thoroughly searched the house.

The police searched Tom Smith's house.

The police have been searching for the stolen goods for almost a month.

Both of the parents did try hard in search of their daughter.

The search party found him lying at the foot of a cliff.