所じょ
Meanings
Counter
Suffix
1. counter for places (offices, facilities, stations)
Kanji used
place
Pitch accent
⚠
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Used in vocabulary (160 in total)
research institute; (research) laboratory
washroom; bathroom
clinic; medical office; infirmary
bathroom antechamber; dressing room; sink area; changing room (at a bathhouse, swimming pool, etc.)
toilet; lavatory; water closet; restroom; bathroom
sleeping place; bedroom; bedchamber
shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place
works; factory; plant
housing facility; detention facility; internment camp; prisoner-of-war camp; concentration camp; refugee camp
large household; large family; large group (of people); big organization; great wealth
meeting place; assembly hall
branch office; agency; sub-branch
health care center; health care centre; animal shelter
check station; checkpoint
marriage agency; matrimonial agency; matchmaking service
police cell; place of detention; jail
shipyard; dock yard; shipbuilding yard
press; print shop; printing office
consultation office; information center; bureau; agency
place of study; school
training institute; school; driving school
(cargo) depot; (garbage) collection site; (ammunition) dump
smoking area; smoking corner
nursery school; day care center; day nursery
branch office; police box; local police station
recreation facility (usu. corporate-owned and for the exclusive use of the corporation's employees); rest home; retreat center
publishing house; publishing office
observatory; observation post
ironworks; steelworks
factory; manufactory; works; mill
lookout post; observation point
(a stock) exchange
unattended sales place; vending machine
brewery; distillery
military station; post
place of enshrinement; morgue; mortuary
storage center; deposit; depository; repository; warehouse
science institute; scientific laboratory
tollgate; tollbooth; tollhouse
landing place (e.g. for steamers); station (e.g. bus); terminal
congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties
securities exchange; stock exchange; bourse
lobby; lounge; recreation room; break room
distribution center; distribution centre
clearing house; clearinghouse; (currency) exchange; bureau de change
currency exchange counter; bureau de change
tourist information center; tourist information centre
guard station; guard house; guard post
cloakroom; parcel room
polling place; polling station
female household; household consisting wholly of women
quarantine station
employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange
rice(-cleaning) mill
weather measurement station
Public Employment Security Office
small scale; small family
comfort women brothel (during World War II); military brothel
(letterpress) printing house
sanctuary; inner sanctum
training school; training institute
carpentry shop; woodworking plant; sawmill
refinery; smelting works
flour mill; gristmill
turnout (on a highway); lay-by; passing-place; shelter; refuge
gas station; petrol station; filling station; service station; fuel depot
toilet (for defecating)
subject and object; activity and passivity
guardhouse; guardroom
bicycle parking place
probation office; probation facility
steelworks; steel mill; steelmaking plant
galley; ship's kitchen
garbage collection site; trash disposal area
publishing house (esp. state-run)
temple; shrine (esp. one at which worshippers pray for favors); prayer hall
fare adjustment office
detention or internment camp
shelter (for buses); waiting area; waiting room
Historiographical Institute (University of Tokyo)
school; institute
inspection station; inspection centre
congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties
turnout (on a highway); lay-by; passing-place; shelter; refuge
service point; agency; office
(federal) Supreme Court (US, Brazil, etc.); High Court (Australia)
(federal) Supreme Court (US, Brazil, etc.); High Court (Australia)
new household (e.g. after marriage); new home
new household (e.g. after marriage); new home
mental functions; mental factors; mental states
transmitting station (e.g. for TV)
workshop; Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies); Edo-period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
National Cancer Institute (US); NCI
newsagent's shop that exclusively sells newspapers from a particular newspaper company
garbage collection site; trash disposal area
toilet; lavatory; quiet place
service point; agency; office
government office
experimental fishery station
work or vocational center (centre)
service point; agency; office
welfare workshop; collaborative workshop
transformer substation
switching station; switchyard
ballot-counting place
frequency-changer station; frequency converter station
operations center (railway, power plant, etc.); control room
site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet
automatic tide-gauge station; tidal observatory
High Court (of Kamakura); Board of Inquiry
excursion spot; getaway; red-light district; brothel