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First opened Sunday, November 7, 2010

飛行場

ひこうじょう

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airport

JLPT N4Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)漢語 · Sino-JapaneseCompound

Hikōjō is 飛行 (hikō, “aviation”) plus 場 (-jō, “place”).

Taken apart

  1. 飛行

    ひこう

    aviation

  2. 場

    じょう

    place

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Written with 飛行場

In a sentence

  • 航空(こうくう)券(けん)は飛行場(ひこうじょう)で受(う)け取(と)れますか。

    Can I pick my ticket up at the airport?

    Tatoeba #173436, translation #241034

  • 飛行機(ひこうき)はすでに飛行場(ひこうじょう)を立(た)っていた。

    The plane had already left the airport.

    Tatoeba #85671, translation #318042

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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.

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Also opened on November 7

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