堤防

• 読み: ていぼう
• ローマ字: teibou
• 漢字の分解: 堤 (tei) — embankment, dike; 防 (bō) — defend, prevent
• 発音: /teː.boː/

意味

Embankment; levee; dike; seawall. A structure built to contain or redirect water and protect land from flooding or wave action.

A noun referring to any engineered barrier constructed along rivers, coasts, or shorelines to prevent flood damage. 堤防 appears frequently in news reports during typhoon and heavy-rain seasons, and is central to civil engineering and disaster-management discourse. Its failure (決壊) is considered a major disaster event in Japan.

例文

1. 河川沿いの堤防が豪雨で決壊し、周辺地域に甚大な被害をもたらした。
2. 住民たちは堤防の建設を自治体に繰り返し要請してきた。
3. 海岸の堤防には波の浸食を防ぐためのコンクリートブロックが積まれている。

使い方ガイド

場面: civil engineering, flood control, natural disasters

トーン: descriptive

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound. 堤 (tei) means embankment or dike, 防 (bō) means defence or prevention. Together they describe the structure that defends land from water.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal