諜報|ちょうほうchouhou[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounsecret information; intelligence

• Synonym密偵みっていWrittenWritten: a spy or the act of secretly probing; centers on the agent itself and carries a historical flavor.
• Related内偵ないていWrittenWritten: covert inquiry into inner affairs, often police groundwork before a case but also other actors; method-focused, while 「諜報」 probes and relays enemy intelligence.
• Related偵察ていさつNeutralNeutral: scouting an enemy's or opponent's movements, mostly in military and sports contexts; not necessarily secret intelligence work like 「諜報」.
• Related探りさぐりNeutralNeutral: sounding someone out or probing; everyday phrase 「探りを入れる」. Works on people or enemy situations, but on a smaller scale than 「諜報」.
• Related偵知ていちWrittenVery literary and rare: to find something out by covert probing. 「諜報」 means probing and passing on enemy intelligence, not just learning it.
• Relatedスパイ行為スパイこういNeutralNeutral: espionage as a concrete act, common in news and legal contexts; plainer than 「諜報」, which is a written, specialized term.
• Relatedスパイ活動NeutralNeutral: spies' intelligence activity, frequent in the news; plainer than 「諜報」, which leans written and specialized.

Use 「諜報」 for national-level intelligence work, as in 「諜報機関」; everyday spying is 「スパイ活動」, military scouting 「偵察」. 「内偵」 is police groundwork, 「スパイ行為」 the act in news or law, 「探り」 casual probing, 「密偵」 a historical spy, 「偵知」 rare literary.

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