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Kanji Detail for 場 - "place, occasion, scene"

  • Meaning

    場 means "place, occasion, scene."

    1. Place - A location; a site.

    2. Occasion - A particular time or event.

    3. Scene - A part of a play or movie.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    location; place

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    open space, field, market

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    field, open space; market, square; stage

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Clearing ground to make a threshing floor. Meaning preparing an open space to make it clean and level. (Book of Odes) "In the ninth month, prepare the threshing floor and vegetable garden." | All places where many people gather for an event are called 場. Such as a meeting place is called 會場; a performance venue is called 劇場. | Colloquially, once is called 一場. The beginning of something is called 開場 (opening); the end is called 收場 (closing).
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Sentences including

  • The sofa takes up too much room.

  • Put yourself in my place.

  • My father and my brother work in this factory.

  • I don't know the exact place i was born.

  • Kyoto has many places to see.

  • Your remarks were out of place.

  • The place is convenient for swimming.

  • Let's meet in front of the theater.

  • It so happened that they were not there.

  • I looked for a place in which to sleep.

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