Meaning & readings
location, place
Origin
The character 場 combines earth or ground (土) on the left with a sound component (昜) on the right that hints at its pronunciation. The earth radical makes sense because a place or location is fundamentally a piece of ground or land where something happens. The right side doesn't add meaning but tells you roughly how to say the character. Together, these parts create a character that literally pictures a designated area of earth, which is what a location or place really is.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 土
- 昜
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
- 夏場 なつば summertime; summer season
- 会場 かいじょう assembly hall; meeting place
- 開場 かいじょう opening (the doors of a venue)
- 議場 ぎじょう assembly hall; the House
- 休場 きゅうじょう (temporary) closure (of a theater, entertainment venue, etc.)
- 球場 きゅうじょう baseball stadium; ballpark
- 漁場 ぎょじょう fishing grounds; permitted fishing zone
- 劇場 げきじょう theatre; theater
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 32
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #52 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+05834