遡る

• 読み: さかのぼる
• ローマ字: sakanoboru
• 漢字の分解: 遡 (so/sakanoboru) — go upstream, trace back to the source
• 発音: /sa.ka.no.bo.ɾɯ/

意味

To go back; to trace back; to date back to. Describes movement or tracing against the flow of time or a current.

A Group 1 (godan) verb whose kanji depicts travelling upstream against a river's current. Used both literally (to go upstream) and extensively in figurative contexts — tracing the origins of history, law, customs, or problems. The potential form 遡れる and the te-form 遡って are especially frequent in academic and journalistic writing.

例文

1. この慣習の起源は平安時代にまで遡ることができる。
2. 問題の根本原因を遡って検証した結果、設計の欠陥が見つかった。
3. 彼女の家系は戦国時代にまで遡る由緒ある血筋だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: history, research, law, journalism

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Native Japanese (yamato kotoba) verb with the kanji 遡 depicting a fish or person moving upstream against a current. The 遡 character is a compound of 氵(water) and 朔 (beginning/first), reinforcing the sense of returning to origins.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Educated