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キッチン (kitchin) Japanese meaning: kitchen | Kotomora
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I am making dinner in the kitchen.
This room has a small kitchen.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 がキッチンに 立た つ for someone to stand in the kitchen (i.e. to cook)
My mother is in the kitchen cooking every morning from early on.
キッチンに 〈 物もの 〉 を 置お く to keep/place something in the kitchen
I keep the seasonings in the kitchen so they're easy to use.
キッチンを 片かた 付づ ける to tidy up/clean the kitchen
I tidy up the kitchen right after meals.
Related words 台所 is the traditional native Japanese word for a kitchen, while キッチン is the modern loanword often used for stylish or Western-style kitchens.
厨房 usually refers to a professional or commercial kitchen (e.g. in a restaurant), whereas キッチン is the general word for any kitchen, including home ones.
K is the abbreviation used in floor-plan notation, while キッチン is the ordinary word for kitchen.
キッチン is a common loanword for kitchen used especially in modern or Western-style contexts, whereas 厨 evokes a traditional Japanese setting.
Word family· 23 kitchen scissors; cooking shears
food truck; mobile kitchen vehicle
kitchenware; kitchen utensils
mini-kitchen; kitchenette
Written forms キッチン Usage 98%
Common katakana spelling for the English loanword meaning a kitchen.
キチン Usage 2%
Standard katakana spelling for chitin. As a spelling for 'kitchen', it is much less common than キッチン and can be ambiguous.
Etymology キッチン is a katakana loanword from English 'kitchen'. キチン in the scientific sense corresponds to English 'chitin'; no language-of-origin note is specified, so the precise borrowing path is not specified here.
対たい 面めん キッチン
open kitchen; face-to-face kitchen