さかのぼる
- to go upstreamword usually written using kana alone
- to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to; to make retroactiveword usually written using kana alone
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; intransitive verb
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It goes back, Personnel Officer Paula Grayson told us, to the way many employers used to pay their employees a hundred years ago.
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.