処

See also 處

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夂 + 几 (“table”)

Han character

処 (radical 16 几+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹水竹弓 (HEHN))

1. place, locale
2. department

Derived characters

• 拠 處

References

• KangXi: page 134, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1745
• Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 276, character 13
• Unihan data for U+51E6

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Japanese

Kanji

処 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょ (sho)
• Kun: おる (処る, oru), か / が (ka, ga), suffix indicating a place, く (ku), suffix indicating a place, こ (ko), suffix indicating a place, と / ど (to, do), suffix indicating a place, ところ (tokoro), とこ (toko), しょす (処す, shosu), equivalent to しょする, しょする (処する, shosuru), "to deal with", "to sentence (for a crime)"

Compounds

彼処 (asoko) 何処 (doko) 区処 此処 (koko) 酒処 死処 住処 随処 善処

其処 (soko) 対処 処々, 処処 (tokorodokoro) 同処 目処 (medo) 出処 処遇 処刑 処決

処女 (shōjo) 処世 処生訓 処断 処置 処罰 処分 (shobun) 処方 処理 (shori)

Noun

処 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 處, hiragana ところ, romaji tokoro)

1. place, spot
2. point in time

Suffix

処 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 處, hiragana どころ, romaji -dokoro)

1. place

Related terms

• 至る処
• 住み処
• 御食事処, お食事処
• 止め処
• 捕らえ処
• 泣き処
• 在り処
• 使い処

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Korean

Hanja

処 (hangeul 처, revised cheo, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏ)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

処 (pinyin chǔ (chu3), Wade-Giles ch'u³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

処 (xứ, xử)