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放送
ほうそうする
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broadcasting
放送 is a wasei-kango compound of 放 (hō, “release”) plus 送 (sō, “send”), attested in the mid-Taishō era.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
今放送中です。
They are on the air now.
首相は明日放送に出る。
The Prime Minister will go on the air tomorrow.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Term attested in the mid-Taishō era (c. 1920).”
- “Wasei-kango compound of 放(ほう) (hō, “release”) + 送(そう) (sō, “send”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 放送 (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
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Made in Japan
- Coined in Japan from foreign material (wasei-kango, wasei-eigo), not borrowed whole.