First opened Friday, January 12, 2007
交差点
こうさてん
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intersection
In kōsaten, 差 is a daiyōji replacing 叉.
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
次の交差点を右に曲がりなさい。
Turn right at the next crossing.
あの交差点で何が起こったのか。
What happened at that crossing?
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “差 is a daiyōji replacing 叉.”
Source: Wiktionary: 交差点 (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.