所々

• 読み: ところどころ
• ローマ字: tokorodokoro
• 漢字の分解: 所 (tokoro/sho) — place, spot, location (×2)
• 発音: /to.ko.ɾo.do.ko.ɾo/

意味

Here and there; in places; in spots. Describes something occurring at various scattered locations.

An adverb and noun meaning 'in various places' or 'here and there.' Formed by reduplication of 所 (tokoro, place). Describes something distributed irregularly across a surface or area — 所々に花が咲いている (flowers bloom here and there), 道路が所々壊れている (the road is broken in places). Common in descriptive writing and everyday observation.

例文

1. 壁が所々ひび割れている。
2. 紅葉が所々に見える山道を歩いた。
3. 古い地図は所々色が褪せていた。

使い方ガイド

場面: description, observation, travel

トーン: descriptive

起源と歴史

Reduplication of 所 (tokoro, place), a fundamental Japanese noun. Doubling creates the distributive meaning 'place after place' — a common grammatical pattern in Japanese for expressing scattered or repeated occurrence.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal