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Kanji Detail for 所 - "place, location, position"

  • Meaning

    所 means "place, location, position."

    1. Place - A location; a position; whereabouts.

    2. Status - A standing; a position.

    3. About - Approximately; around that much.

    4. Nominalization - Used to make verbs into nouns.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    place; extent

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    place, location; numerary adjunct

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    place, location; "that which", a particle introducing a passive clause

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

    A place. Such as 公所, 事務所. All specifying a location is 所. Such as "where" being 何所. All with specific reference is 所. Such as including everything being 所有. | One building is one 所. | A particle.
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Sentences including

  • We visited quite a few places.

  • The sofa takes up too much room.

  • I'm on my way to visit a friend who's in the hospital.

  • Write your name and address.

  • Please give me your permanent address.

  • The place i live in is very good for your health.

  • Start reading where you left off.

  • What kind of places would you like to see?

  • He couldn't remember my address.

  • Clean up the kitchen.

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