First opened Tuesday, September 4, 2012
連邦
れんぽう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
commonwealth, federation of states
In renpō, 連 is a daiyōji replacing 聯.
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
彼は１９５０年代にソビエト連邦へ逃亡した。
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.
私はソビエト連邦のことはまったく知らない。
I don't know about the USSR at all.
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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.
- “連 is a daiyōji replacing 聯.”
Source: Wiktionary: 連邦 (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).