探偵

See also: 偵探

Japanese

Kanji in this term
たん
Grade: 6
てい
Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

(たん)(てい) (tantei) 

  1. a detective (person employed to find information)
    Synonym: ディテクティブ (ditekutibu)
    • 2007 March 15, Aoyama, Gosho, “ブラック・スターの(まき)(ぜん)(ぺん) [Black Star [First Chapter]]”, in まじっく(かい)() [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 84:
      (なん)なんだお(まえ)は⁉
      Nan na n da o-mae wa⁉
      Wh-Who the hell are you⁉
      ()(どう)(しん)(いち)(たん)(てい)ですよ…
      Kudō Shin'ichi… Tantei desu yo…
      Kudō Shin’ichi… I’m a detective
  2. a spy
    Synonyms: 隠密 (onmitsu), スパイ (supai), 密偵 (mittei)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Korean: 탐정 (tamjeong)

See also

Verb

(たん)(てい)する (tantei suru) suru (stem (たん)(てい) (tantei shi), past (たん)(てい)した (tantei shita))

  1. to covertly investigate

Conjugation

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

探偵 or 探偵 or 探偵 (tamjeong or McCune-Reischauer: t'amjŏng or Yale: thamceng) (hangeul 탐정)

  1. Hanja form? of 탐정.
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