音読み: ソウ
訓読み: おくる
画数: 9
部首: 辶（しんにょう）
Meaning
Send / Transmit / Escort
- Basic forms
- 送る — to send; to see off / base form
- 送ります — (I) send / masu form
- 送った — sent / ta form
- 送って — send and …; please send / te-form
- 送らない — do not send / negative form
- 送れば — if (someone) sends / conditional
- 送れ — send! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 送れる — can send; be able to send / potential
- 送れた — was able to send / past potential
- 送れない — cannot send / negative potential
- More
- 手紙を送る — to send a letter
- 友だちを見送った — saw off a friend
- 荷物を送っている — is sending a package / progressive
送る（おくる） is a godan verb ending in る. Covers several meanings: sending objects, forwarding messages, and “seeing someone off,” as in 駅まで友だちを見送る.
- 送信 — transmission (e.g., email)
- 放送 — broadcast
- 転送 — forwarding
- 輸送 — transportation
- 見送る — to see someone off
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送 combines the 辶 (しんにょう) radical, which represents motion or a path, with the character for "to go" or "to follow." Together, it conveys the idea of sending something away — whether it’s a message, person, or object — often over a distance.
メールを送りました。
I sent the email.
彼を駅まで送った。
I saw him off to the station.
送付 — sending (documents, materials)