Word Meaning 強制収容所

きょうせいしゅうようじょ kyouseishuuyoujo

強制収容所 is read as きょうせいしゅうようじょ (kyouseishuuyoujo) and means concentration camp.

Meaning

English

  1. concentration camp

Reading

Kana

きょうせいしゅうようじょ

Romaji

kyouseishuuyoujo

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 41 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 74294 Priority L

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

強制収容

きょうせいしゅうよう

(enforced) confinement

収容所

しゅうようじょ

housing facility

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

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

収容所群島

しゅうようじょぐんとう

Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

強制

きょうせい

compulsion

強制連行

きょうせいれんこう

being moved forcibly, e.g. being carted to a police station, transportation for forced labour, etc.

強制力

きょうせいりょく

compelling power

強制性交

きょうせいせいこう

forcible sexual intercourse

Example Sentences

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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.