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拉致 [spec1]
らち [spec1] らっち
1. [n,vs,vt]
▶ taking captive
▶ carrying away
▶ kidnapping
▶ kidnaping
▶ abduction
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2844078 羅致【らち】 2. taking captive
  ⇐ see: 2220240 拉致る【らちる】 1. to kidnap; to abduct

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2023-08-22 04:51:21  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Yes, odd.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri>
@@ -8,0 +10 @@
+<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
4. A* 2023-08-21 20:57:04  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
ngrams:
殺人	4612155	 [ichi1,news1,nf03] 
拉致	2542573	 <<--- nothing?       Wanikani level 40
暗殺	1140656	 [ichi1,news1,nf07]
誘拐	864261	 [ichi1,news1,nf06]  Wanikani level 54

WaniKani level 40:
https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/拉致

===
スプーン	1845380	33.9%

拉致	2542573	46.7% 
拉致問題	492896	9.1%   <--- this is [spec1]
拉致され	290872	5.3%
拉致被害者 272333	5.0%
  Comments:
Never seen this before... Can/should we make this [spec1]?

This word is apparently more common online than "spoon".  The compound word 拉致問題, which requires you to know *this* word, is [spec1] and thus marked "common" in jisho.org.

I don't know how this wasn't swept up by one of the [news] collations... A bit baffled. So baffled, I went to archive.org to get the Mainichi Shinbun stats file.  This term is ranked ~43,000 with 15 occurrences, presumably over 4 years.   It is the only term that appears with the "拉" kanji at all.  誘拐 is ranked ~3500 with 1639 instances.  Editorial policy of the newspaper in the late 90s? 拉致 seems common enough in news searches today.

Just a sanity check, Google news "reports" (I know, I know...) 
"拉致された" 4920 hits 
"誘拐された" 5870 hits
3. A 2021-11-18 00:44:14  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Meikyo vt and vi additions to n,vs entries
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
2. A 2020-04-11 00:33:41  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2020-04-10 13:35:06  dine <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr, daijs, nikk: https://kotobank.jp/word/拉致-656202
  Comments:
らっち is not in the smaller kokugos but
https://furigana.info/w/拉致
らち	55.0%
らっち+らつち	45.0%
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>らっち</reb>

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