書斎

Japanese

Kanji in this term
書	斎
しょ Grade: 2	さい Grade: S
on’yomi	kan’on

Alternative spelling
書齋 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

First attested in the late 800s.^[1] Appears to be a borrowing from Middle Chinese 書齋 (MC syo tsreaj, “a reading room, a study”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょさい [shòsáí] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞sa̠i]

Noun

書(しょ)斎(さい) • (shosai) 

1. a reading room, a study, a den

References

1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN