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cord
Stroke count: 10

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JōyōGrade 8
  1. index (in a book)

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索引

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bishop · cross · ten (十) · needle (丨) · crown (冖) · thread (糸) · spiderman

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1465

Compound words

索引さくいん
index (in a book)
検索するけんさくする
to look
検索けんさく
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference
思索しさく
speculation; thinking; meditation
捜索そうさく
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
探索たんさく
search; lookup; hunt; (item of) research; exploration
模索もさく
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
検索条件けんさくじょうけん
search criteria
鋼索こうさく
steel cable
索隠さくいん
index (in a book)
索具さくぐ
rigging
索条さくじょう
cable
索漠さくばく
dreary
索莫さくばく
dreary
索麺そうめん
fine white noodles
索寞さくばく
dreary
脊索せきさく
notochord (rudimentary spinal cord)
詮索せんさく
inquiry into
摸索もさく
groping (for)
蕭索しょうさく
lonely
暗中摸索あんちゅうもさく
groping in the dark
暗中模索あんちゅうもさく
groping in the dark
家宅捜索かたくそうさく
house search (e.g. by the police)
索条鉄道さくじょうてつどう
cable railway

Additional Examples

彼は行方不明の母の捜索に着手した。
He set out to find his lost mother.tatoeba
彼の死でその探索は中止された。
His death brought the expedition to an end.tatoeba
大量の文書・史料・蔵書などの索引機能を持たせた文書。
Documents forming an index for a large amount of historical materials, books or documents.wiki
国立国会図書館が運営する日本法令索引では、廃止法令に挙げられている。
The Japan Laws and Regulations Index provided by the National Diet Library lists this Tasshi as an abolished law.wiki

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