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職場

職場

See also: 职场

Chinese

office; duty
 
courtyard; open space; place; field; a measure word; (a measure word, used for sport or recreation)
trad. (職場)
simp. (职场)

Noun

職場

  1. career; work arena
  2. workplace
  3. job market

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji in this term
しょく
Grade: 5

Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi

Etymology

Given the mixed Sinitic-Japanese reading, probably coined in Japan as a compound of (shoku, employment, trade, job, on'yomi, from Middle Chinese) + (ba, place, site, kun'yomi, from Old Japanese).

Pronunciation

Noun

職場 (hiragana しょくば, romaji shokuba)

  1. one's place of work, workplace
  2. one's post, one's job

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

職場 (jikjang) (hangeul 직장)

  1. Hanja form? of 직장, “workplace; job”.