調べる
しらべる · shiraberu · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan
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🔍📖 調 = words 言 + all around 周: go all around the words to check them
Sound hook: she-RAH-beh-roo, as in Shira, bear with me while I look it up. The kanji 調 joins 言 (speech, words) with 周 (circuit, all around), so checking something means making a full circuit of what is said about it.