便所 (benjo)
toilet,lavatory,rest room,latrine,comfort station
- JLPT N2
- noun
- Pitch 3
- #16756 most frequent
Meaning
便所 (べんじょ, benjo) is a JLPT N2 noun meaning “toilet,lavatory,rest room,latrine,comfort station”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
便所はそこです。
The bathroom is there.
便所が匂う
The lavatory makes a smell.
便所は、汲み取り式便所。
The lavatory is of the type that collects the human waste.
生徒はこの便所を使ってはならない。
Students must not use this toilet.
便所は、男女共用の汲み取り式便所。
The station's vault toilet is used by both men and women.
便所は、改札内に男女別の汲み取り式便所がある。
The restroom is within the confines of the ticket gate, with the sexes separated, and the toilets are of the vault type.
便所は、改札内に男女共用の汲み取り式便所がある。
There is a vault toilet used by both men and women within the ticket gate.
日本の便所（にほんのべんじょ）では日本の便所について述べる。
Here, we explain about Japanese lavatories.
またホーム下には簡素ながらも自転車置き場と便所（汲み取り式便所）がある。
Below the platform there is a simple area comprising a toilet (vault toilet) and a parking space for bicycles.
便所は両ホームの改札内にあり、いずれも男女別の汲み取り式便所となっている。
There are restrooms located inside the platform's ticket gate: men's and women's toilets are separate, each being a vault toilet.
男性便所１と女性便所２に、両便所１、２を仕切る仕切り壁３に沿って洋式便器５を設置する。
Western style stools 5 are installed along a partition wall 3 partitioning a toilet for men 1 and a toilet for women 2 in both toilets 1, 2.
簡易水洗式便所やトンネル式便所はこの中間型で、トンネル式便所は水洗式便所ではあるが落下式便所（ボットン便所）の範疇に、簡易水洗式便所は汲み取り式便所ではあるが水洗式便所に含めることもできる。
Kani suisen shiki benjo (lavatory having both functions of flushing with water and scooping up the waste) or tonneru shiki benjo (tunnel type lavatory) are the intermediate types between them, and the latter is a suisen shiki benjo but can be included in the category of a rakka shiki benjo (botton benjo) and the former is a vault toilet but can be included in a suisen shiki benjo.