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電波 (でんぱ): electro-magnetic wave — Japanese vocabulary

電波 is read でんぱ and means "electro-magnetic wave". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

電波

Reading
でんぱ · dempa
Translation
electro-magnetic wave
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
でんぱが

Example

彼の携帯電話は他の電話を妨害する電波を出した。

かれのけいたいでんわはたのでんわをぼうがいするでんぱをだした。

His mobile phone produced radio emissions that interfered with other phones.

Kanji in this word

  • 電 — electricity
  • 波 — wave

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