How to say "evacuation" in Japanese

• 避難ひなんJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbEvacuation in the general sense of taking refuge or finding shelter — escaping danger to a safe place. It covers the basic sense of people getting out of harm's way.
  彼かれは雨あめを避さける避難ひなん場所ばしょを捜さがした。↗

  He sought shelter from the rain.
• 撤退てったいCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbEvacuation as withdrawal: pulling back or out of a place or position. The word also means revocation or repeal; it is about drawing back, not about taking refuge from danger.
  ソ連それん軍ぐんはアフガニスタンからの撤退てったいを開始かいしした。↗

  The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 排出はいしゅつCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbEvacuation only in the physical sense of discharge or emission, sending out gases or other substances such as CO2; it is not a word for people fleeing danger.
  炭素たんそ排出量はいしゅつりょうの変動へんどうが、以下いかのグラフに描えがかれている。↗

  The differing volumes of carbon emissions are plotted in the graph below.
• 退避たいひCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbTaking refuge or evacuation. In meaning it is close to 避難, sharing the basic idea of moving out of danger to safety.
• 疎開そかいCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbEvacuation to the country: the word is tied to moving out to the countryside, so it fits evacuation whose destination is rural areas rather than evacuation in general.

Choose 避難 for taking refuge from danger, 疎開 for evacuation to the country, 排出 for discharge or emission of substances, 撤退 for withdrawal, and 退避 for taking refuge, close in sense to 避難.

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• 避難ひなんtaking refuge
• 撤退てったいevacuation
• 排出はいしゅつdischarge
• 退避たいひtaking refuge
• 疎開そかいevacuation (to the country)
• 下しくだしevacuation
• 通じつうじ(bowel) movement
• 退去たいきょdeparture
• 明渡しあけわたしevacuation
• エバキュエーションevacuation
• お通じおつうじ(bowel) movement
• 瀉下しゃげcatharsis
• 避退ひたいtaking refuge
• 引き上げひきあげrepatriation
• 撤収てっしゅうwithdrawal (of troops)