近所

Japanese

Kanji in this term
近	所
きん Grade: 2	しょ > じょ Grade: 3
kan'on	goon

Alternative spellings
近処 (rare) 近處 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) きんじょ [kíꜜǹjò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [kʲĩɲ̟d͡ʑo̞]

Noun

近(きん)所(じょ) • (kinjo)

a neighborhood
- 2010 July 13, Shirakawa Kikuno, “最(さい)強(きょう)家(か)族(ぞく)だぞ　１(いち) [We’re the Most Powerful Family!: 1]”, in モモ缶(かん) [Momokan], volume 7, Tokyo: Kodansha:
  
  サトコはご近(きん)所(じょ)に聞(き)き込(こ)み頼(たの)む‼　モモはパンに食(く)いつくな‼　オレは玄(げん)関(かん)で張(は)り込(こ)みだ‼
  Satoko wa gokinjo ni kikikomi tanomu‼ Momo wa pan ni kuitsuku na‼ Ore wa genkan de harikomi da‼
  Satoko investigates in the neighborhood‼ Momo tries not to eat that bread‼ I stake out the doorway‼

Synonyms

近(きん)辺(ぺん) (kinpen)

References

Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN