How to say "interception" in Japanese

• 迎撃げいげきCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbInterception in the physical, combative sense: meeting and turning back something incoming, such as an enemy or an attack. Its flavor is defensive and military, close to a counter-attack.
  このまま障壁しょうへきを張はっていても死しぬのを待まつだけだ！だから俺おれたちは障壁しょうへきの外そとに出でて、敵てきを迎撃げいげきする、いいな！？↗

  To keep holding the barrier up is just to wait for death! So we're going to go out past the wall and counter attack the enemy, you ready!?
• 盗聴とうちょうCommon
  suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectiveCovert interception of communications: wiretapping a phone, planting a bug, or secretly intercepting email. It carries a nuance of stealth, often implying illegal eavesdropping.
  国会こっかいは、盗聴法とうちょうほう案あんを巡めぐってまさに侃々かんかん諤々がくがくの体からだであった。↗

  Parliament members had a raucous argument over the Wiretapping Law.
• 傍受ぼうじゅCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbInterception of communications in a neutral sense: monitoring or tapping, without the covert nuance of 盗聴. Use this when you simply mean that a message or call was intercepted.
  よりよいサービスのため、お客きゃくさまのお電話でんわは傍受ぼうじゅされることがあります。↗

  In order to serve you better, your call may be monitored.
• 遮断しゃだんCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbRarely the word you want for interception: it really means cutting something off — isolation, blockade, quarantine. Reach for it when English 'cut off' fits, not when something is intercepted mid-course.
  がけくずれで交通こうつうは遮断しゃだんされた。↗

  Traffic was blocked by a landslide.

Use 迎撃 for physically turning back an incoming attack, 盗聴 for covert wiretapping or bugging, 傍受 for neutral interception of communications, and avoid 遮断, which means cutting off or isolating rather than intercepting.

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

• 迎撃げいげきintercept
• 盗聴とうちょうinterception (email)
• 傍受ぼうじゅinterception
• 遮断しゃだんisolation
• インターセプトinterception (of a pass)
• 邀撃ようげきinterception
• インターセプションinterception
• パスカットintercept
• 要撃ようげきinterception