疎開

• 読み: そかい
• ローマ字: sokai
• 漢字の分解: 疎 (so/uton) — sparse, to scatter; 開 (kai/hira) — to open, spread
• 発音: /so.ka.i/

意味

Evacuation; dispersal; the wartime relocation of people from cities to rural areas to avoid bombing.

Historically refers to Japan's World War II civilian evacuation programme, particularly of schoolchildren (学童疎開), who were sent from major cities to the countryside to escape US air raids. The term has since extended to any situation involving dispersing a population from a danger zone, including modern disaster evacuations and, more recently, decentralisation of urban functions.

例文

1. 戦時中、多くの子どもたちが地方に疎開を余儀なくされた。
2. 空襲を避けるため、都市の住民が農村部へ疎開した。
3. 疎開先での生活は、都会育ちの子どもたちにとって苦労の連続だった。

使い方ガイド

場面: WWII history, disaster response, urban planning

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 疎 (sparse, to scatter) and 開 (to open, spread out). Together they suggest the spreading out or thinning of a population from a concentrated area. The term gained wide use during Japan's wartime mobilisation from 1944 onward.

文化的背景

時代: WWII–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal