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First opened Wednesday, March 7, 2018

補償

ほしょう

  • 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).

compensation, reparation

JLPT N3Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 補償

In a sentence

  • 彼(かれ)はお金(かね)でその事故(じこ)の補償(ほしょう)をした。

    He compensated me for the accident with money.

    Tatoeba #114222, translation #289450

  • 保険(ほけん)会社(かいしゃ)は彼女(かのじょ)の損失(そんしつ)を補償(ほしょう)するだろう。

    The insurance company will compensate her for the loss.

    Tatoeba #83242, translation #320474

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What Wiktionary says

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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.

Also read ほしょう

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 補償This word

    compensation, reparation

    ほしょう flat (heiban)

  • 保証

    guarantee, assurance, warranty

    ほしょう flat (heiban)

  • 保障

    guarantee, security, warranty

    ほしょう flat (heiban)

Also opened on March 7

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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