符合

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 符合(ふごう) refers to accounts, records, or other information matching each other.
• Basic usage: It appears when comparing testimony with records from a scene or finding agreement between the dates of two documents.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• と linking the comparison
  • In 記録と符合する, と marks the information with which something agrees.
• The homophone 符号
  • 符号 is also read ふごう, but means a sign or symbol.
  • Agreement of information is 符合; a symbol representing meaning is 符号.