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鉄工場 (てっこうじょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

鉄てっ工こう場じょう

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Meanings

1

ironworks; ironworking factory

Refers to a factory or workshop where iron is processed or iron products are made.

祖そ父ふは若わかい頃ころ、鉄てっ工こう場じょうで働はたらいて

い

た

。

My grandfather worked at an ironworks when he was young.

この地ち域いきには小ちいさな鉄てっ工こう場じょうがいくつかある。

There are several small ironworking factories in this area.

Kanji

鉄iron
工craft, construction, katakana e radical (no. 48)
場location, place

Related words

製せい鉄てつ所じょ
製鉄所 is a large-scale steel mill or ironworks, often implying a major industrial plant, while 鉄工場 is a more general term for any ironworking shop or factory, including smaller workshops.

Built from

鉄てつ+工こう場じょう

Etymology

Compound of 鉄 (てつ, 'iron') and 工場 (こうじょう, 'factory'). The reading てっこうじょう results from rendaku voicing of こうじょう to こうじょう, and the kanji 鉄 is read as てつ, which combines to てっこうじょう.