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博捜

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
はく
Grade: 4
そう
Grade: S
on'yomi kan'on
Alternative spelling
博搜 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(はく)(そう) (hakusōはくさう (fakusau)?

  1. wide search, especially through written materials

Verb

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(はく)(そう)する (hakusō suruはくさう (fakusau)?suru (stem (はく)(そう) (hakusō shi), past (はく)(そう)した (hakusō shita))

  1. to search widely, especially through written materials
    • 1897, 井上哲次郎, 釈迦種族論[1], 哲学書院, page 63:
      抑〻釋迦祖先(そもそもしやかそせん)歷史(れきし)荒誕(くわうたん)なる大同小異(だいどうせうい)異說多(いせつおほ)ければ博搜(はくさう)して列擧(れつきよ)せんこと煩雜(はんざつ)()へざるの(おそれ)あり、
      Somosomo Shaka sosen no rekishi wa kōtan naru daidō shōi no isetsu ōkereba hakusō shite rekkyo sen koto hanzatsu ni taezaru no osore ari
      To begin with, there are many baseless theories about the history the Buddha’s ancestors that are mostly the same but with slight differences, so searching widely for them and enumerating them is liable to be intolerably involved.

Conjugation

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