Kanji
Readingじょ
Frequency6%
Used in (209 in total)
neighbourhood; neighborhood
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
washroom; bathroom
clinic; medical office; infirmary
changing room (at a bathhouse, swimming pool, etc.)
toilet; lavatory; water closet; restroom; bathroom
bedroom; bedchamber; (arch.) roost; (arch.) nest
shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
works; factory; plant
stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place
internment camp; detention facility; POW camp; refugee camp
meeting place; assembly hall
neighbors; neighbours
neighborhood nuisance; neighbourhood nuisance
health care center; health care centre; animal shelter
marriage agency; matrimonial agency; matchmaking service
branch office; agency; sub-branch
check station; checkpoint
press; print shop; printing office
police cell; place of detention; jail
shipyard; dock yard; shipbuilding yard
consultation office; information center; bureau; agency
child consultation center; children's welfare center
detective agency; enquiry agency
place of study; school
(cargo) depot; (garbage) collection site; (ammunition) dump
nursery school; nursery
smoking area; smoking corner
branch office; police box; local police station
publishing house; publishing office
interaction with one's neighbors; relationship with one's neighbors (neighbours)
neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood; neighbourhood
sanatorium; rest home
public lavatory; slut; whore; floozy
observatory; observation post
prison camp; concentration camp; prisoner of war camp; POW camp
ironworks; steelworks
factory; manufactory; works; mill
(a stock) exchange
unattended sales place; vending machine
lookout post; observation point
science institute; scientific laboratory
place of enshrinement; morgue; mortuary
brewery; distillery
military station; post
tollgate; toll booth
landing place (e.g. for steamers); station (e.g. bus); terminal
lobby; lounge; recreation room; break room
congeries of many households; scratch (combined) team; hodge podge of parties
securities exchange; stock exchange; bourse
distribution center; distribution centre
commercial go-playing parlour (parlor)
tourist information center; tourist information centre
currency exchange counter; bureau de change
clearing house; clearinghouse; (currency) exchange; bureau de change
guard station; guard house; guard post
female household; household consisting wholly of women
cloakroom; parcel room
quarantine station
employment agency; placement agency; labour exchange; labor exchange
rice(-cleaning) mill
weather measurement station
institute for general research; multidiscipline laboratory
Public Employment Security Office
garbage collection site; trash disposal area
public lavatory; sexually promiscuous woman
comfort women brothel (during World War II); military brothel
small scale; small family
having lunch in a toilet cubicle by oneself
neighbourhood dispute (neighborhood); neighbourhood quarrel; grievance with one's neighbour
printer's; print shop
Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)
designated evacuation shelter
toilet sandals; bathroom sandals
pachinko prize exchange shop; shop where pachinko prizes are exchanged for money
training school or institute
sanctuary; inner sanctum
refinery; smelting works
holy of holies; sanctum sanctorum
petrol filling station; gasoline filling station
turnout; passing-place
flour mill; gristmill
toilet (for defecating)
subject and object; activity and passivity
carpentry shop; woodworking plant; sawmill
probation office; probation facility
bicycle parking place
steelworks; steel mill; steelmaking plant
galley; ship's kitchen
guardhouse; guardroom
temple; shrine, especially one at which worshipers pray for favors; prayer hall
fare adjustment office
detention or internment camp
prisoner-of-war camp; POW camp
immediate neighborhood; immediate neighbourhood
shelter (for buses); waiting area; waiting room
Judicial Research and Training Institute
inspection station; inspection centre
service point; agency; office
toilet (from which night-soil may be collected)
new household; new home
outhouse (from which night-soil may be collected); privy
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.
(arch.) birthplace; place of rebirth; place of reincarnation
toilet; lavatory; quiet place
toilet god; guardian deity of the privy
(historical) government office
experimental fishery station
work or vocational center (centre)
Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
welfare workshop; collaborative workshop
transformer substation
switching station; switchyard
vital point (critical place to make a move in the game of Go)
ballot-counting place
frequency-changer station; frequency converter station
operations center (railway, power plant, etc.); control room
cryptocurrency exchange; crypto exchange; digital currency exchange
traveling clinic; travelling clinic
site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet
Pana-Wave Laboratory (Japanese religious organization)
poverty-stricken household
training institute for civil servants
prefectural training institute
Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo (faction of the LDP)
High Court (of Kamakura); Board of Inquiry
excursion spot; getaway; red-light district; brothel