集落・聚落|しゅうらくshuuraku[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounsettlement; village; community; town
2. noun, biology(bacterial) colony

• Synonym部落ぶらくNeutralA local community within a village; it can also refer to the discriminated buraku communities, so use with care. 「集落」 is neutral.
• Synonym村落そんらくWrittenWritten register, meaning a village or hamlet; 「集落」 is broader and also covers towns.
• Synonym村むらNeutralA village, and also an administrative unit; 「集落」 focuses on a place where people live together.
• Synonym人里ひとざとNeutralInhabited areas where people live, as in 「人里離れた」; 「集落」 centers on the settlement itself.
• SynonymコロニーWrittenWritten loanword for a colony, political or biological; 「集落」 is about settlements of people.
• SynonymビレッジNeutralLoanword for a village, often in facility names like 「選手村ビレッジ」; 「集落」 is the geographic term.
• Synonym里さとWrittenWritten register. Means the countryside or a village, also a wife's family home or one's hometown; 「集落」 is a geographic term for a settlement where people live.
• Synonym村里むらざとWrittenWritten word for a village or the countryside; 「集落」 is a geographic term.
• Related町まちNeutralA town, larger than a village, and also an administrative unit; 「集落」 covers both villages and towns.
• Related郷邑きょうゆうWrittenWritten term for a village or rural hamlet; in everyday speech say 「村」.
• Related郷村ごうそんWrittenWritten term for medieval and early-modern village communities; 「集落」 is broader.
• Related里村さとむらWrittenWritten word for a small village in the mountains or farming country; 「集落」 is broader.
• Related村邑そんゆうWrittenWritten term for a small rural village; 「集落」 is far more common.
• Related都邑とゆうWrittenWritten term for cities and towns; 「集落」 leans toward smaller settlements.
• Related村庄そんしょうWrittenWritten and rare; a rural village or the houses there. 「集落」 is more common and also covers towns.
• Antonym荒野こうやNeutralWilderness or wasteland; the opposite of 「集落」 in that no community lives there.
• Antonym無人地帯むじんちたいNeutralLand where nobody lives; the opposite of the inhabited 「集落」.

Use 「集落」 for a settlement where people live together, as in 「限界集落」 or 「山間の集落」. For an administrative village say 「村」, for inhabited places 「人里」, for towns 「町」. 「部落」 can suggest discriminated communities, so take care. 「ビレッジ」 appears in facility names, 「コロニー」 means a colony. The rest — 里, 村落, 村里, 郷邑, 郷村, 里村, 村邑, 都邑, 村庄 — are written words. 「荒野」 and 「無人地帯」 are the opposites.

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1. 「聚落じゅらく」の「同音どうおんの漢字かんじによる書かきかえ」。