Re: What's the difference between searching and searching?

From: muchan (usenet_at_usenet.usenet)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:15:39 +0100

jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
> Paul Blay <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> dixit:
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>>Well what I do know is that I've just been playing a computer
>>game that uses 探す most of the time but 捜す sometimes.
>>IIRC it used 捜す to refer to searching for someone('s home base)
>>when they had given their tail the slip.
>
>
> What do the NSOJs say about this?
>

As a Japanese word, /sagasu/ is /sagasu/, one word.
As chinese characters, two characters are different, and used in different
context, so writing with either one is specific to that meaning in Chinese.

You learn the difference in kanwa-jiten. ;)

As my personal gut's feeling, 捜す is used only for
1) someone is missing, and an organisation search him/her/them systematically.　捜索する
2) Police is investigating the crimnal. (捜す and さぐる are related)　捜査する

When you forget where is your key, and seeking it, you don't use 捜す.
When you seek the idial person to marry, you don't use 捜す.
When you research to know the truth of the universe, you don't use 捜す.
When you're lost in woods, and seeking the right path to go to the villege,
you don't use 捜す.
When you're seaching the tresure in a tropic island, you don't use 捜す.
etc., etc...

muchan

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