模索

もさく · mosaku · JLPT N1 · noun

groping (for)

🔦 模 (feel for) + 索 (cord, rope): groping along a rope in the dark

模索 = 模 (trace, feel one's way) + 索 (rope, cable). Like feeling along a rope when you cannot see, you grope for an answer by touch rather than sight.

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