Kanji1 / 12
報 kanji
report, news, reward, retribution
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ホウ
Kun readings
むくいる
Words with 報
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —速報値preliminary figures (e.g. economic statistics); preliminary results
- —報恩講memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism)
- —怪情報gossip; rumor; rumour
- —諜報網espionage network; intelligence network
- —大字報big-character poster (in China); large-print wall newspaper
- —報告会debriefing (session)
- —誤警報false alarm; accidental alarm
- —情報局intelligence agency; intelligence bureau; Cabinet Intelligence Bureau (1940-1945)
- —裏情報secret intelligence; underground information; confidential information; inside information
- —会報誌member magazine; newsletter (for members)
- —誤情報false information; incorrect information; misinformation
- —広報室public relations department
- —情報省Ministry of Information
- —報道班press corps; group of reporters
- —広報局public relations department; information bureau
- —報告官rapporteur; reporter
- —情報戦information warfare; information war
- —報労金financial reward for someone's efforts; remuneration paid to the finder of a lost item
- —性情報sexual information (e.g. gender, sexuality, reproduction)
- —赤報隊Sekihōtai (short-lived pro-imperial volunteer corps formed during the Boshin War)