災害派遣

Reading

Kana: さいがいはけん

Romaji: saigaihaken

Definition

noun

1

disaster relief operation; disaster relief mission

Kanji

災

Readings: サイ、 わざわ.い

Meanings: disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil

害

Reading: ガイ

Meanings: harm, injury

派

Reading: ハ

Meanings: faction, group, party, clique, sect, school

遣

Readings: ケン、 つか.う、 -つか.い、 -づか.い、 つか.わす、 や.る

Meanings: dispatch, despatch, send, give, donate, do, undertake

Example Sentence

政府(せいふ)が自衛隊(じえいたい)に沖縄(おきなわ)への災害(さいがい)派遣(はけん)を要請(ようせい)した。

➥The government asked the SDF for a disaster relief deployment to Okinawa.