Illustration: At a neighborhood telegraph office, an operator sits beside a wired telegraph key and a receiving apparatus feeding a narrow paper strip. He passes a freshly folded message form across the counter to a waiting delivery messenger, who already holds an open document envelope.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

電でん報ぽう

denpou

telegram

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは、彼女かのじょから電報でんぽうを受うけ取とった。

    I received a telegram from her.

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  2. 電報でんぽうをすぐ送おくれ。

    Send the telegram at once.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 電報でんぽうでご返事下へんじください。

    Please answer me by telegram.

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Kanji in 電報

  • 電electricityOnデン
  • 報report; newsOnホウKunむくいる

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