Word Meaning 収容所

しゅうようじょ shuuyoujo

収容所 is read as しゅうようじょ (shuuyoujo) and means housing facility.

Meaning

English

  1. housing facility
  2. detention facility
  3. internment camp
  4. prisoner-of-war camp
  5. concentration camp
  6. refugee camp
  7. asylum

Reading

Kana

しゅうようじょ

Romaji

shuuyoujo

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 22 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 12092 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

強制収容所

きょうせいしゅうようじょ

concentration camp

労働収容所

ろうどうしゅうようしょ

labor camp

入国者収容所

にゅうこくしゃしゅうようじょ

immigration detention center

収容所群島

しゅうようじょぐんとう

Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

絶滅収容所

ぜつめつしゅうようじょ

extermination camp

捕虜収容所

ほりょしゅうようじょ

prisoner-of-war camp

俘虜収容所

ふりょしゅうようじょ

prisoner-of-war camp

収税所

しゅうぜいしょ

tax-collection office

収容

しゅうよう

containing (e.g. words in a dictionary)

収容定員

しゅうようていいん

admission capacity

収容作業

しゅうようさぎょう

collecting bodies (of casualties, etc.)

収容力

しゅうようりょく

capacity

Example Sentences

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I escaped from the detention center.

Rodrigo's family went to the dog pound to adopt a dog.

Many Japanese-Americans were sent off to concentration camps during World War II.

During the Stalinist era, prisoners at concentration camps became slaves in service of the state.

During the Second World War, German Nazis killed many people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.