Illustration: Outside a Japanese apartment bicycle shelter at dusk, a would-be thief in ordinary clothes tries to wheel away a commuter bicycle. A thick chain through its frame and the fixed rack pulls taut immediately, stopping the bicycle while the person's cautious backward glance reveals the furtive intent.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

防ぼう犯はん

bouhan

crime prevention

Example sentences

  1. 防犯ぼうはんのために登下校時とうげこうじは、名札なふだを外はずしてください。

    In order to prevent crime, please take off your name tag when travelling to and from school.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. まずは防犯ぼうはん意識いしきをしっかり持もちましょう! 出でかける前まえには戸締とじまりを!

    First hold crime-prevention firmly in mind! Before going out, lock the doors!

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. またほとんどの場合ばあい、夜間やかんは防犯ぼうはんなどの目的もくてきで閉鎖へいさされていた。

    In most cases, kido were closed at night for security reasons.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 防犯

  • 防prevent; protectOnボウKunふせぐ
  • 犯crime; sinOnハン・ボンKunおかす

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