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飛行場
ひこうじょう
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airport
Hikōjō is 飛行 (hikō, “aviation”) plus 場 (-jō, “place”).
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In a sentence
航空券は飛行場で受け取れますか。
Can I pick my ticket up at the airport?
飛行機はすでに飛行場を立っていた。
The plane had already left the airport.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “飛行(ひこう) (hikō, “aviation”) + 場(じょう) (-jō, “place”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 飛行場 (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.