処

See also: 處

処	U+51E6, 処 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E6

← 凥
[U+51E5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

凧 →
[U+51E7]

Translingual

Traditional	處
Shinjitai	処
Simplified	处

Stroke order
Japan

Han character

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

Derived characters

拠處

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 処

Western Zhou

Warring States

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Liushutong (compiled in Ming)

Bronze inscriptions

Chu slip and silk script

Small seal script

Transcribed ancient scripts

**Small seal script**
s10638

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 処 – see 處 (“to reside; to live; to dwell; to be situated in; to be in; etc.”). (This character, 処, is the former (1935–1936) ROC simplified and variant form of 處.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03607-003

Japanese

Shinjitai	処
Kyūjitai	處

Kanji

処

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 處)

Readings

Go-on: しょ (sho, Jōyō)^{←しよ (syo, historical)}
Kan-on: しょ (sho, Jōyō)^{←しよ (syo, historical)}
Kun: おる (oru, 処る); おく (oku, 処く); か (ka, 処); く (ku, 処); こ (ko, 処); と (to, 処); とこ (toko, 処); ところ (tokoro, 処)

Compounds

彼(あし)処(こ) (ashiko), 彼(あそ)処(こ) (asoko), 彼(あ)処(こ) (ako), 彼(あす)処(こ) (asuko), 彼(か)処(こ) (kako), 彼(かし)処(こ) (kashiko)
何(いず)処(く) (izuku), 何(いず)処(こ) (izuko), 何(いど)処(こ) (idoko), 何(ど)処(こ) (doko)
区(く)処(しょ) (kusho)
此(こ)処(こ) (koko)
酒(さけ)処(どころ) (sakedokoro)
死(し)処(しょ) (shisho)
住(すみ)処(か) (sumika)
随(ずい)処(しょ) (zuisho)
善(ぜん)処(しょ) (zensho)
其(そ)処(こ) (soko)
対(たい)処(しょ) (taisho)
処(ところ)々(どころ) (tokorodokoro), 処(ところ)処(どころ) (tokorodokoro)
同(どう)処(しょ) (dōsho)
目(め)処(ど) (medo)
出(しゅっ)処(しょ) (shussho)
処(しょ)遇(ぐう) (shogū)
処(しょ)刑(けい) (shokei)
処(しょ)決(けつ) (shoketsu)
処(しょ)女(じょ) (shojo)
処(しょ)世(せい) (shosei)
処(しょ)生(せい)訓(くん) (shoseikun)
処(しょ)断(だん) (shodan)
処(しょ)置(ち) (shochi)
処(しょ)罰(ばつ) (shobatsu)
処(しょ)分(ぶん) (shobun)
処(しょ)方(ほう) (shohō)
処(しょ)理(り) (shori)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
処
ところ Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
處 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 処 – see the following entry.

【所ところ】3

[noun] a place, a scene, a site; an address

[noun] a state of being

[noun] (after a plain verb) about to

[noun] (after a verb in the past tense) just

[noun] (after a verb in the progressive ている) indicates the current state, or how you have progressed so far in a chain of actions

[noun] (after a verb in the past tense) at that point in time, upon

[noun] (literary, calque of Literary Chinese 所) Attaches to verbs to form noun phrases, meaning the object of that verb.

(This term, 処, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Related terms

至(いた)る処(ところ) (itarutokoro)
住(すみ)処(か) (sumika)
御(お)食(しょく)事(じ)処(どころ) (o-shokujidokoro)
止(と)め処(ど) (tomedo)
捕(と)らえ処(どころ) (toraedokoro)
泣(な)き処(どころ) (nakidokoro)
在(あ)り処(か) (arika)
使(つか)い処(どころ) (tsukaidokoro)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
処
こ Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
處 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi

IPA^(key): [ko̞]

Suffix

処(こ) • (-ko)

(not productive) place

Korean

Hanja

処 (eum 처 (cheo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

処: Hán Nôm readings: xứ, xử

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