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冷蔵庫
れいぞうこ
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refrigerator
Reizōko is 冷蔵 (reizō, “refrigeration”) plus 庫 (-ko, “depository”).
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In a sentence
冷蔵庫は食品の腐敗を防ぐ。
The refrigerator preserves food from decay.
大きな型の冷蔵庫がほしい。
I want to buy a large sized refrigerator.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “冷蔵(れいぞう) (reizō, “refrigeration”) + 庫(こ) (-ko, “depository”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 冷蔵庫 (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.