Practice JLPTMeaning
逃亡 (とうぼう, toubou) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “escape”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
警視庁は、殺人容疑者のAが海外へ逃亡した恐れがあると発表した。
The Metropolitan Police Office announced that there is some concern that murder suspect A has escaped overseas.
彼は 逃亡を 図った。
He attempted to escape.
彼らは 逃亡を 企てた。
They attempted to escape.
犯人は 夜陰に 乗じて 逃亡した。
The prisoner escaped under cover of night.
秋田城司介良岑近は防戦しかねて逃亡した。
Chikashi YOSHIMINE, the lord of Akita-jo Castle, had difficulty defending the castle and was forced to escape.
逃亡 犯人を 捕まえようと 油断なく 見張った。
I was on the alert for a fugitive criminal.
彼は１９５０ 年代にソビエト 連邦へ 逃亡した。
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.
このため，税回避のための浮浪や逃亡，偽籍などが頻発した。
As a result, vagrancy, escape, false registers and others were prevalent among people for tax avoidance.
ツムラの創業者津村重舎は大和国宇陀郡出身で、雲雀山青蓮寺の檀家であり、母の実家の藤村家に、逃亡中の中将姫をかくまった御礼に製法を教えられた薬（中将湯）が、代々伝えられていたという。
Jusha TSUMURA, the founder of Tsumura & Co., was from Uda County, Yamato Province, and a Buddhist parishioner of Shoren-ji Temple at Mt. Hibari; and his mother's family home, the Fujimura family had possessed for generations the prescription of medicine (called Chujo-to) which Chujo Hime had taught them as a token of her gratitude for hiding her in their house while she had been running away.