How to say "home" in Japanese

• ホームCommon
  nounThe loanword for 'home': you will meet it chiefly inside set phrases and compounds, and on its own it is seldom the word you want for the place where you live.
  その後あとは、多おおくの者ものが老人ホームろうじんほーむで暮くらすが、そこには子供こどもとか孫まごが訪たずねていくことが出来できる。↗

  After that, many live in special homes for the aged where their children and grandchildren can come to visit them.
• 家庭かていJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounHome as the family unit and domestic life rather than the physical building: the word for talking about one's family circumstances, life at home, and upbringing.
  食事しょくじは家庭かていで食たべますか、外食がいしょくですか。↗

  Do you eat at home or eat out?
• 本場ほんばJLPT N1approx.Common
  no-adjectiveThe home of a thing rather than of a person: the place where a dish, product, or activity originated or is done best — where you go for the genuine article.
• ハイムCommon
  nounA loanword, from German Heim, that turns up chiefly in the names of apartment buildings and housing complexes; as an ordinary noun it is seldom the word you want for 'home'.
• 宅たくJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, noun (suffix)A person's house or home, most often someone else's and then usually with the honorific お (お宅); by itself it is seldom what you use for one's own home.
  ワシントン市しの友人宅ゆうじんたくに泊とまります。↗

  I'm staying at my friend's house in Washington City.

家庭 is home as family life, 宅 a person's house (often someone else's), 本場 the home of a dish or product; 「ホーム」 and 「ハイム」 are loanwords mostly confined to set phrases and building names.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• ホームhome
• 家庭かていhome
• 本場ほんばhome (of something)
• ハイムhome
• 宅たくhouse
• 家いえhouse
• 生息地せいそくちhabitat
• 国内こくないwithin the country
• 所帯しょたいhousehold
• 住処すみかdwelling
• 令堂れいどうhome
• ヤサhome
• 居宅きょたくresidence
• 小宅しょうたくhouse
• 国内的こくないてきinternal (to a country)
• 据え置き型すえおきがたdesktop (computer)
• 実家じっか(one's parents') home
• 施設しせつhome (for the elderly, orphans, etc.)
• 宿やどhouse
• 産地さんちhome (of a plant or animal)
• おうち(my) home
• 内地ないちJapan proper (as opposed to its overseas colonies)
• 里さとhome (of one's parents, etc.)
• 閨門けいもんhome
• 国くにhome (i.e. hometown, home country)