First opened Tuesday, September 30, 2025
防衛
ぼうえい
- 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).
defense, protection, self-defense
Taken apart
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In a sentence
国内は防衛問題で沸騰した。
The country seethed over the issue of national defense.
その男は自己防衛を口実にした。
The man pleaded self-defence.
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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.