chukaku-ha

1. 1.

   an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing

   “Chukaku-Ha attacks tend to cause property damage rather than casualties”

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Japan · terrorism

Questions about chukaku-ha

What does chukaku-ha mean?

chukaku-ha means "an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing".

How many syllables are in chukaku-ha?

chukaku-ha has 4 syllables and divides as chu-ka-ku--ha under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is chukaku-ha a common word?

chukaku-ha is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.