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報 kanji
report, news, reward, retribution
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
ホウ
Kun readings
むくいる
Words with 報
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —情報過多information overload
- —情報機関intelligence agency
- —情報漏洩information leak; data breach
- —虚偽報道false reporting; fake news
- —情報操作manipulation of information; spin
- —偏向報道biased coverage; biased media account; bias in reporting
- —報道被害victimization by media; trial by media; damage caused by exaggerated or false reporting (e.g. that one has committed a crime)
- —虚偽報告false report
- —暴風警報storm warning
- —至急電報urgent telegram
- —特別警報emergency warning
- —求人情報job vacancy information; recruitment information
- —情報保護information security; information protection; data security
- —企業情報corporate information
- —どこ情報where did you hear that?; who did you get that from?
- —情報統制information control
- —報復人事retaliatory personnel decision (demotion, sacking, etc.)
- —同害報復(principle of) an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; lex talionis; equal retaliation
- —応報刑論theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
- —応報主義retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment