はんにん
Meanings
Noun
1. offender; criminal; culprit
The culprit was there when the incident occurred.
Pitch accent
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んにん
Composed of
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
counter for people
Used in vocabulary (15 in total)
the real criminal; true culprit
to arrest the culprit
criminal profile
Examples (36 in total)
I heard the culprit got caught!
I was suspected to be the criminal.
Don't let the culprit get away, whatever you do.
The criminal hijacked a plane.
The arrest of the culprit is a matter of time!
So now we're each calling the other the culprit?
The criminal is still at large.
The perpetrator was Canadian.
I knew who the culprit was, but I couldn't tell the two of them.
The criminals have all been apprehended.
That would really mean we lost to the culprit!
The police pursued the murderer.
Once surrounded, the criminal gave up right away.
The criminal tried to escape by car.
The police were able to find the criminal.
They sympathized with the miserable criminal.
The criminal has not been caught yet.
The police officer fired at the criminal.
The police found out where the criminal lived.
I don't know which room the criminal entered.
The detectives caught the culprit within a week.
The police still can't point out who committed the crime.
It's an undeniable fact that he is the culprit.
What are you doing getting pinned down by the criminal instead?
The police have started a nationwide hunt for the criminal.
The criminal's foot size is 23 centimeters.
The police are investigating whether the culprit had intent to kill.
The culprit's actions were terribly inexplicable.
He was hiding the fugitive criminal at his house.
The criminal had to conceal his identity.
The criminal is not Bob, but his twin brother.
The police found evidence that the man committed the crime.
From this evidence, it follows that he is not the criminal.
He speaks as if he knew the criminal.
Did the culprit take a knife from this room and then commit the crime?
That's why they deliberately leave traces that show who did it, and then run off.