誘拐

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 誘拐, read ゆうかい, is the crime of kidnapping or abducting a person against their will.
• Basic usage: It can name an actual kidnapping case or appear in 誘拐を装う when someone falsely pretends an abduction occurred.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Forcibly taking a person away
  • It denotes the crime of taking a person away, as in a fictional kidnapping case. In the second example, the call only pretends that an abduction occurred.