工場
こうじょう
hepburn koujou
factory, plant
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 父はこの工場で三十年働いています。My father has worked at this factory for thirty years.
- 工場の機械が止まってしまいました。The factory machines have stopped.
Collocations
工場で働く自動車工場工場見学工場長町工場
Mnemonic
工場 koujou — 工 (craft, work) + 場 (place). 工 is skilled work with tools, 場 is a place — the place where things are made, a factory. It is where 製品 (products) are made and 生産 (production) happens. Colloquially also read kouba, but the standard on-yomi reading is koujou.
Quick check
What chiefly happens at a 工場?