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天気予報
てんきよほう
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weather forecast
Tenki yohō is 天気 (tenki, “weather”) plus 予報 (yohō, “forecast”).
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In a sentence
天気予報が当たったよ。
The weather forecast was right.
天気予報を信じてないの？
Don't you trust the weathermen?
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What Wiktionary says
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- “天気 (tenki, “weather”) + 予報 (yohō, “forecast”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 天気予報 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.