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望遠鏡
ぼうえんきょう
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telescope
Bōenkyō is 望遠 (bōen, “long-distance viewing”) plus 鏡 (-kyō, “lens”).
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In a sentence
彼は望遠鏡に目を当てた。
He put his eye to a telescope.
望遠鏡のピントをあわせた。
I adjusted the telescope to my vision.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “望遠 (bōen, “long-distance viewing”) + 鏡 (-kyō, “lens”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 望遠鏡 (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.