同級生

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
どう
Grade: 2
きゅう
Grade: 3
せい
Grade: 1
kan’yōon kan’on
 同級生 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

Compound of (どう)(きゅう) (dōkyū) + (せい) (-sei, student).[1][2]

First attested in 1901.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(どう)(きゅう)(せい) (dōkyūseiどうきふせい (doukifusei)?

  1. [from 1901] a classmate (student of the same class)
    Synonym: クラスメート (kurasumēto)
    いやな(どう)(きゅう)(せい)()()った。
    Iya na dōkyūsei ni deatta.
    I encountered a classmate that I did not want to meet.
  2. a schoolmate who attends school in the same year
    Synonyms: 校友 (kōyū), 学友 (gakuyū)
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 同級生”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.