漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
場: location, place
JLPT N412 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 土earth(meaning)
- 昜(sound)
土 carries the meaning · 昜 gives the sound
12 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ジョウjou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 入場するにゅうじょうするenter
- 出場するしゅつじょうするparticipate (game)
- 会場かいじょうassembly hall, meeting place
- 式場しきじょうceremonial hall
- 工場こうじょうfactory
- 市場しじょうmarket (business)
- 試験場しけんじょうexamination room, laboratory
- 野球場やきゅうじょうbaseball field
ばba · kun'yomi · on its own
- 場所ばしょlocation
- 場面ばめんscene
- 場合ばあいcase
- 立場たちばstandpoint
Also read チョウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)土 earth (meaning) + 昜 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 場 (rev. 93436804), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Earth radical + change/spread (昜) = a designated piece of land where something specific happens.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
昜
Also built on 昜
The 昜 family reads ヨウ (you); 場 is read ジョウ、チョウ.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side場 location · 土
vs揚 raise · 扌In ChineseSimplified 场 · traditional, as in Japanese · chǎng
Japan keeps the traditional form 場; mainland China simplifies it to 场.
- Simplified
- 场 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 場 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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