Meanings
- go upstream
- retrace the past
Strokes13
JLPT levelN2
School gradeSecondary school
FrequencyBeyond #2,500
Kanji N2
遡: go upstream, retrace the past
遡 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning go upstream, retrace the past, written with 13 strokes. It is read ソ, サク (on) and さかのぼる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 遡る (さかのぼる, to go upstream).
遡
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ソ
- サク
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- さかのぼる
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 遡
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- 遡るさかのぼるJLPT N2
to go upstream; to go up (a river)
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