Kanji1 / 8
所 kanji
place, extent
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ショ
Kun readings
ところ-ところどころとこ
Words with 所
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —局所的local; localized; partial; topical (application)
- —局所名local name
- —送信所transmitting station (e.g. for TV)
- —留置所police cell; place of detention; jail
- —祈願所temple; shrine (esp. one at which worshippers pray for favors); prayer hall
- —談義所Buddhist seminary
- —活版所(letterpress) printing house
- —無任所lacking a portfolio (of a minister of state, etc.)
- —代表所representative office (e.g. diplomatic)
- —烹炊所galley; ship's kitchen
- —発売所sales office
- —待合所shelter (for buses); waiting area; waiting room
- —開成所Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)
- —造仏所government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period)
- —細工所workshop; Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies); Edo-period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.
- —寝場所place to sleep
- —新所帯new household (e.g. after marriage); new home
- —遊山所excursion spot; getaway; red-light district; brothel
- —寺務所office of a temple
- —辻便所public lavatory