送おくる

お

く

る

Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 1,000

Meanings

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

Broad physical and digital sending: mail, packages, data, money, signals, etc.

データをメールで送おくってください。

Please send the data by email.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

Accompanying someone to a departure point or destination, often as a courtesy.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

say goodbye to the departed; bury; bid farewell to

Used for funerals and final farewells; often implies seeing someone off on their final journey.

多おおくの人ひとが故こ人じんを送おくるために集あつまった。
Many people gathered to bid farewell to the deceased.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

Used with time periods or life-related nouns such as 日々, 人生, 時間.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

Used in sports, especially baseball, for advancing a runner; also for passing objects along a line.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

affix okurigana

Linguistic term: to add okurigana (kana suffixes) to a kanji stem.

送おくるUsage97%
Standard kanji spelling for all senses.
おくるUsage3%
Kana spelling is common in informal writing and when the intended sense is clear from context.

届とどける
届ける focuses on delivering something to a specific recipient or destination, while 送る is broader and includes the act of sending itself.
見み送おくる
見送る specifically means to see someone off, often with a nuance of watching them leave, whereas 送る can mean escorting or accompanying.
過すごす
過ごす is the more common verb for spending time in a general sense; 送る with time is more literary or used with life-related nouns.

Native Japanese verb. The kanji 送 is associated with sending and escorting, and the reading おくる is of native origin.