開かい場じょう

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開場する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

opening of doors; admission start

Refers to the moment a venue, hall, or stadium opens its doors to the public. Often used in event schedules. Antonym: 閉場 (closing of a venue).

Antonyms: 閉場

Used for the formal opening of a new building, facility, or institution. Less common than sense 1; often replaced by 開館 or 開所 in specific contexts.

開かい場じょうは〈時とき〉からdoors open from (time)
開かい場じょうは午ご後ご6時じからです。
Doors open from 6 PM.
〈時とき〉に新しん館かんが開かい場じょうするa new hall/building has its opening ceremony at (time)
来らい月げつ、新あたらしい美び術じゅつ館かんが開かい場じょうする。
The new art museum will have its opening ceremony next month.
〈場ば所しょ〉が開かい場じょうするa venue opens (its doors)
会かい場じょうは開かい演えんの1時じ間かん前まえに開かい場じょうする。
The venue opens one hour before the performance begins.
開かい場じょうを待まつto wait for the doors to open
ファンたちは開かい場じょうを待まって列れつに並ならんだ。
The fans lined up waiting for the doors to open.

開かい館かん sense 1
開場 is a general term for any venue opening its doors, whereas 開館 specifically refers to a building like a library or museum opening.
開かい所しょ sense 2
開場 in its ceremonial sense overlaps with 開所, but 開所 is used specifically for the opening of an office or institution rather than an event venue.
開かい演えん sense 1
開場 refers to the doors opening so people can enter, while 開演 refers to the performance itself starting, which usually happens later.

閉へい場じょう sense 1
closing (a place); closure · closing down (e.g. a theatre); shutting permanently

会かい場じょうN4
開場 (same reading as 会場) means 'the opening of a venue/doors to the public', not the venue itself like 会場.
開かい演えん
開場 refers to the doors opening so the audience can enter, while 開演 refers to the performance itself actually beginning, usually later.

Compound of 開 (kai, 'open') and 場 (jō, 'place, venue'). The reading is on'yomi, and the word follows standard Sino-Japanese word formation.