N21398/1725

遡さかのぼる

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana alonegodan verbgodan verb (archaic)verb (generic)intransitive verb

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さかのぼる

Meanings

to go upstream, to go up (a river)
to go back (to the past or origin), to date back (to), to trace back (to), to be retroactive (to)

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Example sentences

この川かわを遡るさかのぼると、美うつくしい滝たきが見みえます。

If you go upstream along this river, you can see a beautiful waterfall.

その習慣しゅうかんは江戸えど時代じだいまで遡るさかのぼることができる。

That custom can be traced back to the Edo period.

問題もんだいの原因げんいんを遡ってさかのぼって調しらべる必要ひつようがある。

It is necessary to investigate by tracing back the cause of the problem.

この法律ほうりつは去年きょねんの四月しがつに遡ってさかのぼって適用てきようされる。

This law is applied retroactively to last April.

歴史れきしをどれだけ遡ってもさかのぼっても、戦争せんそうのない時代じだいを見みつけるのは難むずかしい。

No matter how far back in history you go, it is difficult to find an era without war.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)