彼処

Kanji in this term
彼	処
あし Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
irregular	kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼處 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese. Appears to be a compound of 彼 (a, “that one over there”, distal marker, indicating something distant from both speaker and listener) +‎ し (shi, possibly the directional marker found in terms such as 昔 (mukashi, “ancient times”), 縦し (tatashi, “the standing or vertical direction”), 横し (yokoshi, “the sideways or horizontal direction”)) +‎ 処 (ko, “place”). May be the older form of modern asoko below.^[1]

• (Tokyo) あしこ [àshíkó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠ɕiko̞]

彼(あし)処(こ) • (ashiko) 

1. (obsolete) yon place, that place yonder, that place over there, that area over there, that part over there
   • c. 1001–1014, Murasaki Shikibu, Genji Monogatari (Wakana, part 1)

     彼処(あしこ)に籠(こも)りなむのち

     ashiko ni komorinamu nochi

     ...after hiding there...

Kanji in this term
彼	処
あそ Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
irregular	kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼處 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 彼処 – see the following entry.

【あそこ】 [pronoun] (deictically) that place, area, or part over there (far from the speaker and the addressee) [pronoun] (deictically) that organization or team over there (far from the speaker and the addressee) [pronoun] (anaphorically) that place, area, or part we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) [pronoun] (anaphorically) that organization or team we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know) [pronoun] (slang, by extension from the sense of “down there”) genitals

(This term, 彼処, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
彼	処
あ Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼處 (kyūjitai)

Appears to be a compound of 彼 (a, “that one over there”, distal marker, indicating something distant from both speaker and listener) +‎ 処 (ko, “place”).^[1][2] First appears in the late 1500s, early 1600s,^[2] and used mostly in the Kansai region.^[2][3] Given the historical tendency for innovation in the Kansai region, the term may instead derive as an abbreviation of asoko above, by analogy with the -ko suffix in ここ (koko, “here”) and そこ (soko, “there”, closer to the listener than to the speaker).

• (Tokyo) あこ [áꜜkò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠ko̞]

彼(あ)処(こ) • (ako) 

1. (dialectal) yon place, that place yonder, that place over there, that area over there, that part over there

Generally only used in the Kansai region.

Kanji in this term
彼	処
あす Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
irregular	kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼處 (kyūjitai)

Either a shift in pronunciation from asoko,^[2] or from ashiko.^[1]

• (Tokyo) あすこ [àsúkó] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [a̠sɨko̞]

彼(あす)処(こ) • (asuko) 

1. (rare, dialect, Hakata) yon place, that place yonder, that place over there, that area over there, that part over there

Kanji in this term
彼	処
か Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼處 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 彼 (ka, “that one over there”, distal marker, indicating something distant from both speaker and listener) +‎ 処 (ko, “place”).

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ko̞]

彼(か)処(こ) • (kako) 

1. (rare, obsolete) yon place, that place yonder, that place over there, that area over there, that part over there
   • 1483, 地蔵菩薩霊験絵詞 (Jizō Bosatsu Reigen Eshi, “Jizō Bodhisattva Miracle Picture-scroll”)

     彼処(かこ)を退(そ)き去(さ)る也(なり)

     kako o sokisaru nari

     ...[he] left that place...

Kanji in this term
彼	処
かし Grade: S	こ Grade: 6
irregular	kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
彼�� (kyūjitai)

Appears to be a compound of 彼 (ka, “that one over there”, distal marker, indicating something distant from both speaker and listener) +‎ し (shi, possibly the directional marker found in terms such as 昔 (mukashi, “ancient times”), 縦し (tatashi, “the standing or vertical direction”), 横し (yokoshi, “the sideways or horizontal direction”)) +‎ 処 (ko, “place”).

• (Tokyo) かしこ [káꜜshìkò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɕiko̞]

彼(かし)処(こ) • (kashiko) 

1. (rare) yon place, that place yonder, that place over there, that area over there, that part over there
2. (rare) that aforementioned place