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待合室
まちあいしつ
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waiting room
Machiaishitsu is machiai, the stem of 待ち合う (machiau), plus 室 (-shitsu, “room”).
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In a sentence
彼は待合室を見回した。
He looked around the waiting room.
彼は待合室に座っています。
He's sitting in the waiting room.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 待(ま)ち合(あ)い (machiai, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 待(ま)ち合(あ)う (machiau)) + 室(しつ) (-shitsu, “room”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 待合室 (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
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.