report, news, reward, retribution
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
そんなに心配する前に、天気予報を見てみようよ。
Sonna ni shinpai suru mae ni, tenki yohou wo mite miyou yo.
Let's see what the forecast says before you worry that much.
何も感じなかった…ただの誤報だったのかな?
Nani mo kanjinakatta... tada no gohou datta no kana?
I didn't feel anything... maybe it was just a false alarm?
よかった、津波警報は出てないね。
Yokatta, tsunami keihou wa detenai ne.
Good, there was no tsunami warning.
携帯のアラーム、聞いた?あれは緊急地震速報よ。
Keitai no araamu, kiita? Are wa kinkyuu jishin sokuhou yo.
Did you hear that alarm on your phone? That's the emergency alert.
ほらね?予報より早く過ぎたでしょう。
Hora ne? Yohou yori hayaku sugita deshou.
See? It passed faster than the forecast said.
テレビでは、気象予報士が日本の地図を見せていました。
Terebi de wa, kishou yohoushi ga Nihon no chizu wo misete imashita.
On TV, the weather announcer was showing the map of Japan.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0