場 · place, scene

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

場 means place, scene. It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 12 strokes, read ば or じょう. It is built from 2 parts: 土 (soil, earth), 昜 (open, sun). It appears in 場合 (case / situation) and 場所 (place / location).

筆順 · Stroke order

場 is written in 12 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

場 breaks into 2 parts.

• 土 semantic soil, earth · left carries the meaning
• 昜 other open, sun · right component

Words that use 場

Word	Reading	Meaning
場合	ばあい	case / situation
場所	ばしょ	place / location
会場	かいじょう	venue / meeting place

Built from the same parts

These use 土 or 昜 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 赤red
• 去to leave
• 地ground
• 堂public chamber
• 社company
• 走run
• 埼cape

Practise 場

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