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EntryCommonJLPT N2

  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb

    to go upstream; to go up (a river)

    Usually written using kana alone

    鮭は川をさかのぼって砂に産卵する。
    Salmon go up the river and lay their eggs in the sand.

  2. to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to); to be retroactive (to)

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 溯る【さかのぼる】、逆上る【さかのぼる】、泝る【さかのぼる】

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Characters in this word

1
遡
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go upstream, retrace the past

Kun
さかのぼ.る
On
ソサク
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
Radical
辵 walk

Built from

月込并屮
Words starting with 遡Words ending in 遡Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
3-3-10, 3-4-10SKIP code
3a10.2The Kanji Dictionary
3730.2Four corner code
9061Unicode hex code
1-33-44JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4727Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6094New Nelson (John Haig)
3257New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4040Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2785Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2847Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2111Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
39048XMorohashi
1989Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
su4Pinyin reading
soKorean reading