仕置き場

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仕	置	場
し Grade: 3	お Grade: 4	ば Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
仕置場

Etymology

Compound of 仕置き (shioki, “execution, punishment”) +‎ 場 (ba, “place, ground”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しおきば [shìókíbá] (Heiban – [0])^[3]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ɕio̞kʲiba̠]

Noun

仕(し)置(お)き場(ば) • (shiokiba)

an execution ground, a place of death penalty

Idioms

仕置(しお)き場(ば)の巾着切(きんちゃくき)り (shiokiba no kinchakukiri): “a cutpurse at an execution ground” → a metaphor that there are bad people no matter where you go, or used as a description of a person's character to state that they would continue bad behavior even to extremes

Synonyms

刑場(けいじょう) (keijō)

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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