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
- —魔所location where a magical being resides; cursed place where disaster after disaster occurs
- —聖所sanctuary; inner sanctum
- —便所hairdresser's room in the residence of the shogun or a noble
- —退所leaving (a facility, clinic, office, research institute, etc.); retiring
- —通所making regular visits to a social welfare facility
- —所務job; role; duty; service; (job of) collecting land tax (feudal Japan); earnings from land tax
- —心所mental functions; mental factors; mental states
- —明所empty place; unoccupied space
- —哨所sentry post; guard post
- —生所birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
- —本所main office; this office
- —暗所dark place; unlit spot; darkness
- —所外outside an office, laboratory, power plant, etc.
- —転所change of location (address, nursery school, institute, etc.); moving; transfer; moving to a new post (of a judge)
- —任所one's place of appointment; one's post
- —別所separate place; another place; newly cultivated land
- —所帯household; home; family
- —陣所camp; encampment
- —廟所mausoleum; graveyard; cemetery
- —案内所information desk