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目撃 (もくげき) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

目もく撃げき

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

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

witness; observe; sight

Used for directly seeing an event, person, or thing, often with a nuance of being an eyewitness. Common in news and police contexts.

彼かれは事じ故こを目もく撃げきした。
He witnessed the accident.
犯はん行こうの目もく

撃げき

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報ほう

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Eyewitness information about the crime was provided.

Kanji

目eye, class, look
撃beat, attack, defeat

Similar words

目もく撃げき者しゃ
目撃者 is the person who witnesses (eyewitness), while 目撃 is the act or event of witnessing.
見みる
見る is the general verb for 'see' or 'look', while 目撃 implies witnessing something noteworthy, often unexpectedly.

Etymology

Compound of 目 (eye) and 撃 (strike, attack), originally meaning 'to strike with the eye', i.e., to see something striking or noteworthy. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with witnessing.