How to say "bathtub" in Japanese

Choosing the right word

風呂ふろJLPT N5approx.Common
nounThe broadest of the three: it means the bath or bathing, and by extension the bathroom, with "bathtub" as one of its senses; when talking about taking a bath, this is the word you want.
インカ人にんはヨーロッパ人にんよりも多おおく風呂ふろへ入はいった。↗
The Inca took baths more often than Europeans.
浴槽よくそうCommon
nounThe specific word for the tub itself as a physical object, with none of the wider senses of bathing or the bathroom; choose it when the fixture, not the bath, is what you mean.
何者なにものかが彼女かのじょを浴槽よくそうで溺死できしさせた。↗
Somebody had drowned her in the bathtub.
湯船ゆぶねCommon
nounThe tub as filled with hot water, the thing you sink into and soak in; it points to the hot water you sit in rather than the tub as a bare object.

Choose 風呂 for the bath or bathing in general, 浴槽 when you mean the tub itself, and 湯船 for the tub filled with hot water that you soak in.

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