How to say "freezer" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 冷凍庫れいとうこnounThe freezer compartment or chest freezer as a household appliance. This is the word you want for everyday talk about the kitchen freezer, such as where frozen food is stored.
- nounA loanword covering the same household appliance sense. Perfectly understandable, but less common than the native term, and it can also refer to other freezer devices in context.
- 凍結器とうけつきnounA technical term for freezing equipment that freezes things, not the freezer in your kitchen. Seldom the word you want in everyday conversation; it belongs to industrial or laboratory contexts.
- 冷却器れいきゃくきnounA device that cools, glossed variously as refrigerator, cooler, freezer, or radiator of a car. Its core sense is a cooler, so it is only marginally 'freezer' and rarely what you want for the appliance.
- 冷凍機れいとうきnounA refrigerating or freezing machine, typically mechanical or industrial refrigeration equipment. It is not the freezer compartment of a refrigerator, so it is seldom the right word for the household appliance.
For the household appliance, 冷凍庫 is the usual word; 「フリーザー」 is a loanword alternative, while the other three are mainly technical or mechanical terms for cooling/freezing equipment rather than the kitchen freezer.
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