Keyword
perpetrator
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
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KankenLevel 6
Heisig1517
Readings
はん
(83%)
おか
(15%)
Composed of
animal
fingerprint
Mnemonic

The perpetrator left his fingerprints all over the scene... it was an animal!

(Some animals such as monkeys and koalas do actually have fingerprints, just like humans.)

Used in vocabulary (188 in total)
offender; criminal; culprit
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
crime; offence; offense
Examples (200 in total)
The man I thought was the criminal didn't have any connection to the incident.
Was the culprit found?
The police found out where the criminal lived.