Japanese symbol for “atc”
航空管制
こうくうかんせい
Romaji: koukuukansei
air traffic control; ATC
In Japanese, atc is 航空管制, read こうくうかんせい (koukuukansei).
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Meanings
- n air traffic control; ATC
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “atc”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自動列車制御装置 | じどうれっしゃせいぎょそうち jidouresshaseigyosouchi | automatic train control; ATC |
| 適応変換符号化 | てきおうへんかんふごうか tekiouhenkanfugouka | Adaptive Transform Coding; ATC |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 航空 | こうくう koukuu | aviation; flying |
| 航空機 | こうくうき koukuuki | aircraft |
| 航海 | こうかい koukai | (sea) voyage; navigation; sailing |
| 航路 | こうろ kouro | (air or sea) route; course; line |
| 難航 | なんこう nankou | difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight |
| 渡航 | とこう tokou | voyage; passage; travelling |
| 空気 | くうき kuuki | air; atmosphere |
| 空港 | くうこう kuukou | airport |
| 管理 | かんり kanri | control; management (e.g. of a business) |
| 制度 | せいど seido | system; institution; organization |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.