# 場 — Location

Frequency rank 31 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

You will meet this constantly in published Japanese — newspapers, books, signs, and dates.

More common than 学 (Study), less common than 方 (Direction).

- On’yomi: じょう
- Kun’yomi: ば
- Radical: 土 Earth (Kangxi 32)
- Frequency path: Level I of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 12

A truck dumps soil onto an empty patch of ground while workers raise a barn around it.

In words:

- 場 ば — place,field (physics)
- 場所 ばしょ — location
- 場合 ばあい — situation

[Study 場](https://app.kanjidrift.com/study?kanji=%E5%A0%B4)

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