First opened Monday, October 27, 2025
補強
ほきょう
- 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).
reinforcement
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼らは村を洪水から守るために堤防を補強した。
They strengthened the embankments to protect the village from flooding.
コンクリートは中に鋼鉄の棒を入れる事で補強される。
Concrete can be reinforced by putting steel bars inside it.
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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.