Japanese

Alternative forms

• 仕置場

Noun

仕置き場 ‎(hiragana しおきば, romaji shiokiba)

1. an execution ground, a place of punishment

Idioms

• 仕置 (しお)き場 (ば)の巾着切 (きんちゃくき)り ‎(shiokiba no kinchakukiri): “a cutpurse at an execution ground” → a metaphor that there are bad people no matter where you go, or used as a description of a person's character to state that they would continue bad behavior even to extremes

Synonyms

• 刑場 (けいじょう) ‎(keijō)

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3