How to say "delivery" in Japanese

• 配信はいしんCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers delivery in the sense of distributing or transmitting digital content, such as streaming video, music, or news online. This is the word for media delivery, not for parcels.
• 配達はいたつJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe everyday word for delivery of mail, packages, newspapers, and food to a recipient's address. If you are talking about a package being delivered to your home, this is usually the word you want.
  どれくらいで配達はいたつしてもらえますか。↗

  How soon can they be delivered?
• 交付こうふJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbRefers to delivery in the sense of official issuance or granting, as when a government office hands over a certificate or a document. It applies to formal, administrative handing-over, not to goods or media.
  市長しちょうは私に身分証明書みぶんしょうめいしょを交付こうふした。↗

  The mayor provided me with an identity card.
• 配送はいそうCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers delivery of goods, especially as part of shipping and logistics. It is common in commercial and business contexts, such as a store delivering products to customers, and overlaps with 配達.
  １０個こではなく５個こだけが配送はいそうされました。↗

  Only five instead of ten units were delivered.
• 引き渡しひきわたしCommon
  nounMeans delivery in the sense of handing something over or transferring it, as in delivering a finished product, handing over a building, or extradition of a person. It is not used for routine parcel delivery.

For 'delivery', choose 配達 or 配送 for delivering goods, 配信 for streaming or broadcasting content, 交付 for official issuance of documents, and 「引き渡し」 for handing over or transferring things or even persons.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 配信はいしんdistribution (of information, news, etc.)
• 配達はいたつdelivery
• 交付こうふdelivery
• 配送はいそうdelivery
• 引き渡しひきわたしdelivery
• 出産しゅっさんchildbirth
• 伝達でんたつtransmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity)
• 搬送はんそうtransportation
• 受け渡しうけわたしdelivery
• 仕向けしむけdelivery
• 分娩ぶんべんchildbirth
• 供出きょうしゅつobligatory supply (of goods to the government, e.g. during wartime)
• お産おさん(giving) birth
• 給付きゅうふprovision (of money or goods)
• 出荷しゅっかshipping
• 伝送でんそうtransmission
• 産さん(giving) birth
• デリバリーdelivery
• デリdelivery
• 送達そうたつdelivery
• 分娩作用ぶんべんさようdelivery
• 交附こうふdelivery
• お届けおとどけdelivery (of a package, goods, etc.)
• 蔵出しくらだしreleasing stored goods (esp. sake)
• 手交しゅこうhanding over
• 渡しわたしdelivery
• 納入のうにゅうsupply (of goods)
• 先渡しさきわたしdelivery (of freight)
• 払い出しはらいだしissuance
• ケータリング(food) delivery