JLPT N2Kanji compounds
検討
Readingけんとうkentou
- Meaning
- 物事の良し悪しや当否を細かく調べ、よく考えること
- Explanation
- 「検討（けんとう）」 means to examine the merits and demerits or rightness and wrongness of something in detail and think it over carefully. It is used as in 「前向きに検討する（to consider positively）」. It does not mean finishing solving something as in c1, but refers to the stage of careful examination before reaching a conclusion.
- Examples
- 前向きに検討する
Original Japanese explanation
「検討（けんとう）」は、物事の良し悪しや当否を細かく調べてよく考えることです。「前向きに検討する」のように使います。c1 のように解決し終えることではなく、結論を出す前によく調べる段階を指します。
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