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ガソリンスタンド
ガソリンスタンド
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gas station, service station
Gasorin sutando is wasei eigo (和製英語), derived from gasoline plus stand and attested from at least 1933.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
次のガソリンスタンドに寄ろうよ。
Let's stop at the next gas station.
左に曲がるとガソリンスタンドがある。
Turning to the left, you will find the gas station.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from gasoline + stand. Attested from at least 1933.”
Source: Wiktionary: ガソリンスタンド (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Made in Japan
- Coined in Japan from foreign material (wasei-kango, wasei-eigo), not borrowed whole.