Illustration: Behind a Japanese apartment building, a bicycle sits in the same neglected corner of the communal parking area. Its rear tire is completely flat, the chain is rusty, and weeds have grown through the spokes.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

放ほう置ち

houchi

to leave unattended, to neglect

Example sentences

  1. 雨あめの中なかに放置ほうちしておくと自転車じてんしゃはさびるでしょう。

    A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 少女しょうじょたちは縛しばり上あげられて地下室ちかしつに放置ほうちされた。

    The girls were trussed up and left in a cellar.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 駅えきの近ちかくの歩道ほどうには何処どこに行いってもおびただしい数かずの自転車じてんしゃが放置ほうちされているのが見みかけられる。

    Wherever you go, you see a lot of bicycles left on sidewalks near stations.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 放置

  • 放set free; releaseOnホウKunはなす・はなつ・はなれる
  • 置placement; putOnチKunおく

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