Components

Example details

 
はいご
背後
いと
いている
じんぶつ
人物
いる
けいさつ
警察
っている

The police say there's someone pulling string behind the scenes.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
1
1. back; rear
2. background; behind the scenes
(click the word for examples and links)
1
noun, noun (suffix)
thread; yarn; string
(click the word for useful expressions, examples and links)
0
'ku' godan verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb
1. to pull
2. to draw (attention, etc.); to attract (interest, etc.)  (see also: 注意を引く)
(click the word to view an additional 12 meanings and 3 forms, examples and links)
1
noun
1. person; character; figure; personage; man; woman
2. one's character; one's personality
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning, examples and links)
0
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
1. to be (of animate objects); to exist  (see also: 在る; often written with kana only)
2. to stay  (often written with kana only)
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning and 2 forms, examples and links)
0
1. police
2. police officer  (see also: 警察官; abbreviation)
(click the word to view an additional 1 meaning, examples and links)
0
1. to say; to utter; to declare
2. to name; to call
(click the word to view an additional 1 reading, 1 meaning and 4 forms, useful expressions, examples and links)
Kanji
ハイ   せ the back   せい height   そむ to disobey   そむける to turn one's face away   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ホク   きた north   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
さじ spoon   
left side   じょう    しょう    
ニク body part   
ゴ   コウ   のち    あと afterwards   うし behind   おくれる be late   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
short, tiny   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
シ   いと thread   
step
go
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
イン   ひ to pull   ひける to be over   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
キュウ   ゆみ a bow   
stick   
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
ブツ   モツ   もの thing   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
モチ   not
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
pig
ギュウ   うし cow   
ケイ   admonish
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ケイ   うやま to respect, revere   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
grass   
ク    verse, phrase   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
wrap
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ぼく strike   
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   い to say   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
サツ    surmise, inspect   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
サイ   まつ festival   まつ to deify, enshrine   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジ   シ   しめ to show   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ニ   ふた    ふた two   
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
また again   
roof   
Flashcards
Please LOG IN for free flashcards
More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
Problem with this example? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×