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望遠鏡 (ぼうえんきょう): telescope — Japanese vocabulary

望遠鏡 is read ぼうえんきょう and means "telescope". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

望遠鏡

Reading
ぼうえんきょう · bouenkyou
Translation
telescope
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
ぼうえんきょうが

Example

彼は望遠鏡を使ってその船を眺めた。

かれはぼうえんきょうをつかってそのふねをながめた。

He looked at the ship through his telescope.

Kanji in this word

  • 望 — hope, desire
  • 遠 — Distant, Far
  • 鏡 — Mirror, Speculum, Barrel-head

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