- jouhou information, news, report, intelligence; information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.)
Neutral, everyday word for 'information'; very common in news, tech, and daily talk, broader than 'data' and less formal than 'knowledge'.
新しい情報をありがとう。
Atarashii jouhou o arigatou.
Thanks for the new information.
その情報は間違っている。
Sono jouhou wa machigatte iru.
That information is wrong.
⚖️ Often confused with データ (dēta), but データ is raw data for analysis, while 情報 is processed or meaningful information.
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