場
부수: 土
획수: 12획
場 has the meanings ‘open space’ and ‘place’.
場 = 土 + 昜
X = semantic + phonetic
• 土 depicts a chunk of earth on the ground. This is used to represent ‘a flat field’.
• 昜 is comprised of 日 (sun) and 
(axe handle), but is used primarily for its sound.
Evolution:
場 = ’flat ground’ ➔ ’open space’ ➔ ’activity in an open space’
昜 = 日 + 
• 日 depicts the sun
• depicts an axe handle
昜 alone has the meaning ‘sun rising’ and some scholars suggest this implies ‘removing obstructions from the ground’. That is, ‘flattening the ground for construction’.
Mnemonic
Imagine a woodchopper with an axe walking into a field at the break of dawn 日. As the sun rises 昜 he begins chopping down trees to create a flat ground 土 for a 농場.
Vocab
| 場所 | 장소 | place; space; location |
| 場內 | 장내 | inside |
| 場面 | 장면 | scene; setting |
| 現場 | 현장 | site/location (of event) |
| 農場 | 농장 | farm |
| 市場 | 시장 | market |
| 工場 | 공장 | factory |
| 職場 | 직장 | workplace |
| 駐車場 | 주차장 | parking lot |
| 會場 | 회장 | meeting hall; conference center |
| 磁場 | 자장 | magnetic field |
| 開場 | 개장 | opening |
| 退場 | 퇴장 | exit |
| 立場 | 입장 | standpoint; position |
| 登場 | 등장 | appearance; entrance |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 1079]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 144]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 場, 土, 昜, 日].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 161]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.