塾
塾 — Cram school
cram school, private school
On’yomiジュク (juku)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (14 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 塾
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塾 | じゅく juku | cram school; private tutoring school; juku |
| 塾長 | じゅくちょう jukuchou | principal of a private school |
| 塾生 | じゅくせい jukusei | cram school student; student of a private-tutoring school |
| 私塾 | しじゅく shijuku | small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists) |
| 入塾 | にゅうじゅく nyuujuku | enrolling at a cram school |
Study notes
塾 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 14 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1297 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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