区

• 読み: く
• ローマ字: ku
• 漢字の分解: 区 (ku) — district, ward, section
• 発音: /kɯ/

意味

Ward; district; borough. An administrative division of a city.

A noun referring to the administrative wards that divide large Japanese cities. Tokyo has 23 special wards (特別区), and other designated cities like Osaka and Yokohama also have wards. Used as a suffix after the ward name (e.g., 渋谷区, 中央区). Essential vocabulary for understanding Japanese addresses.

例文

1. 東京には二十三の区があります。
2. 渋谷区に引っ越したいと思っています。
3. この区の図書館はとても大きいです。

使い方ガイド

場面: geography, addresses, urban life

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 区 originally depicted an enclosed area divided into sections. It has been used in Chinese administrative terminology for centuries and was adopted into Japanese for urban ward divisions.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal