Illustration: In a Japanese apartment hobby room, a radio enthusiast carefully turns the tuning knob of a tabletop communications receiver while listening through large headphones. A cable runs through the balcony doorway to a long wire antenna.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

短たん波ぱ

tanpa

shortwave radio waves

Example sentences

このラジオは短波たんぱも受信じゅしんできる。
This radio can receive shortwave broadcasts too.
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父ちちは毎晩まいばん、短波たんぱで外国がいこくのニュースを聞きく。
My father listens to news from abroad on shortwave every night.
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雨あめの夜よるは短波たんぱの放送ほうそうが聞きき取とりにくい。
Shortwave broadcasts are hard to make out on rainy nights.
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Kanji in 短波

短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい
波waves; billowsOnハKunなみ

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