失しっ踪そう

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失踪する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	失しっ踪そうする	失しっ踪そうしない
Polite	失しっ踪そうします	失しっ踪そうしません
Past polite	失しっ踪そうしました	失しっ踪そうしませんでした
Past	失しっ踪そうした	失しっ踪そうしなかった
Te-form	失しっ踪そうして	失しっ踪そうしないで
Desire	失しっ踪そうしたい	失しっ踪そうしたくない
Potential	失しっ踪そうできる	失しっ踪そうできない
Passive	失しっ踪そうされる	失しっ踪そうされない
Causative	失しっ踪そうさせる	失しっ踪そうさせない
Causative passive	失しっ踪そうさせられる	失しっ踪そうさせられない
Volitional	失しっ踪そうしよう
Polite volitional	失しっ踪そうしましょう
Imperative	失しっ踪そうしろ	失しっ踪そうするな
Conditional	失しっ踪そうすれば	失しっ踪そうしなければ
Tara conditional	失しっ踪そうしたら	失しっ踪そうしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

disappearance; going missing; absconding

Often used for a person vanishing without explanation, especially in legal, police, or news contexts. Can imply deliberate flight.

彼かれは突とつ然ぜん失しっ踪そうした。
He suddenly disappeared.
失しっ踪そう事じ件けんが増ふえている。
Missing-person cases are increasing.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が失しっ踪そうするfor a person to go missing/disappear
彼かの女じょは3年ねん前まえに失しっ踪そうした。
She disappeared three years ago.
〈人ひと〉が失しっ踪そう中ちゅうだsomeone is currently missing
その男おとこは今いまも失しっ踪そう中ちゅうだ。
That man is still missing.
失しっ踪そうの疑うたがいがあるto be suspected of having gone missing (under suspicious circumstances)
警けい察さつは失しっ踪そうの疑うたがいがあるとみて捜そう査さを始はじめた。
The police began an investigation suspecting a disappearance.

Kanji

失lose, error, fault
踪remains, clue, footprint

Related words

行方ゆくえ不ふ明めいN3
行方不明 is the neutral term for someone's whereabouts being unknown, while 失踪 often implies the person deliberately fled or vanished under suspicious circumstances.
蒸じょう発はつN2
蒸発 is a colloquial, dramatic way to say someone vanished and cut all ties, whereas 失踪 is the more formal, legal/news term for disappearance.
逃とう亡ぼうN1
逃亡 specifically means fleeing or escaping (often from justice), while 失踪 just means the person's location became unknown, with flight only sometimes implied.
失しっ跡せき
失踪 is the general, widely used word for someone going missing, while 失跡 specifically implies deliberately fleeing to avoid responsibility or detection.

Don't confuse with

疾しっ走そう
疾走 (also read しっそう) means to dash or run at full speed, a completely different meaning from 失踪's 'disappearance'.
失しっ墜つい
失踪 (disappearance of a person) shares the 失 kanji and sound with 失墜 but has nothing to do with losing prestige.
失しっ速そく
失踪 means to disappear or go missing (of a person), and is easily confused with 失速 due to the similar しっそ〜 sound and shared 失 kanji, but the meanings are unrelated.

Word family

失しっ踪そう者しゃ
missing person; runaway
危き難なん失しっ踪そう
disappearance after an accident or disaster; missing and presumed dead
失しっ踪そう宣せん告こく
adjudication of disappearance; declaration of presumed death

Written forms

失しっ踪そうUsage98%
Standard kanji spelling; used in legal and news contexts.
失しっそうUsage2%
search-only kanji form
Search-only form; not a standard spelling.

Etymology

Compound of 失 (loss, disappearance) and 踪 (footprint, trace). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning of vanishing without a trace.