漁る

• 読み: あさる
• ローマ字: asaru
• 漢字の分解: 漁 (ryō/asa) — fishing, hunting, foraging
• 発音: /a.sa.ɾɯ/

意味

To search through; to rummage; to forage or fish for. Implies an active, sometimes frantic search through a collection of things.

A Group 1 (godan) verb. Literally means to fish or hunt for food, but in modern usage it almost always describes rummaging through shelves, bags, or databases to find something. The connotation is often of searching greedily or carelessly. Common collocations include 情報を漁る (trawl for information) and 棚を漁る (rummage through shelves).

例文

1. 古書店の棚を漁って、絶版になった詩集をようやく見つけた。
2. 空腹で帰宅し、冷蔵庫を漁ったが食べられるものが何もなかった。
3. ネットで情報を漁るだけでは、問題の本質は見えてこない。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, internet, shopping, research

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From 漁 (ryō/asa), the character for fishing or hunting. The godan verb suffix gives it the sense of actively engaging in that search. The shift from literal fishing to figurative searching is well established in modern Japanese.

文化的背景

時代: Contemporary

世代: All ages

社会的背景: General