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解とく
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, く, transitive)
1. to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack
I uncrossed my arms.
2. to unsew; to unstitch
3. to solve; to work out; to answer
How should I solve this problem?
4. to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease
Now, shall I clear up the misunderstanding?
5. to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege)
I'll dissolve the contract right away.
6. to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss
7. to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
also written as 梳く
I combed my hair.
Alt. forms
解とく
96%
とく
2%
梳とく
Kanji used
解
unravel
Pitch accent
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く
Top 1600
Conjugations...Used in: 4330
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
to solve a mystery
to read and understand; to interpret (e.g. a difficult text); to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
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Examples (76 in total)
I uncrossed my arms.
The ban on going out was finally lifted.
Were you able to solve the problem?
He solved all the problems.
Tell me how to solve the problem.
I solved the problem easily.
To his great joy, he succeeded in solving the problem.
Please solve this equation.
I'll dissolve the contract right away.
You should try to figure it out for yourself.
I had difficulty in solving this problem.
He can't have solved it.
Thank you for clearing up the misunderstanding.
If you do that, the castle's security will be lifted.
I solved the problem in this way.
Have you solved all the problems yet?
He tried to solve the problem.
It is difficult for me to solve that problem.
If you solved it yourself, you should know, right!?
Could you help me solve this problem?
It is no use trying to solve this problem.
At last, he solved the problem.
He solved the difficult problem easily.
I found it easy to solve the problem.
It's almost impossible to work out this problem.
This is the key to the whole mystery.
Allen was given a problem that was impossible to solve.
She could solve the problem with ease.
Anybody can solve that problem.
It was easy for him to solve the problem.
Even when I speak to her, the woman does not lower her guard.
If I am being suspected, I must somehow clear up the misunderstanding.
It is easy for you to solve this problem.
One by one, carefully clearing up misunderstandings.
He solved the problem with great ease.
I can't figure out how to solve the puzzle.
I'll give you five minutes to work out this problem.
He solved the problem with ease.
I want him to solve the problem.
No one could solve the problem.
This problem is too difficult for me to solve.
I found out how to solve the problem.
He succeeded in solving the problem.
It took me five minutes to solve the problem.
How should I solve this problem?
None of the teachers could solve the problem.
Is there a way to break that curse?
My brother could not solve the complicated problem.
He does not know how to solve the problem.
There must be some way to solve this.
She unclasps her hands and clenches her fists tightly.
How did you solve the problem?
Untie the young soldier's ropes, at least.
He tried solving the problem.
I can't solve the problem on my own.
It took me a couple of hours to solve this problem.
I could solve the problem without any difficulty.
Dick tried to solve that problem, but he couldn't.
Tom didn't know how to solve this problem.
I was able to solve that problem this morning.
He is clever enough to solve the problem.
This is how he solved the difficult problem.
Takeo is engrossed in solving mathematical problems.
It is said that nobody has solved the problem yet.
The student has already solved all the problems.
It's little by little, but I feel like I'm starting to see how to solve it.
I'm really good at figuring out these kinds of problems.
At last, we succeeded in solving the question.
We were surprised at the ease with which he solved the problem.
I released the tension, leaned my back against the door, and sat down on the spot.
This child solved the complicated mathematics problem easily.
You just need to solve it using this formula listed here.
The doctor is trying to solve many of the riddles of cancer.
He solved all those problems with ease.
The chimpanzee is an intelligent creature, capable of solving simple problems.
It took him ten minutes to solve the problem.