Chinese

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) だいがく [dàígákú] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [da̠iɡ̃a̠kɯᵝ]

Noun

大学 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 大學, hiragana だいがく, romaji daigaku)

1. a university; a college
   • 1996 February 20, Mitsuru Adachi, “近況 [How It's Going Now]”, in ショート・プログラム [Short Program], volume 1 (fiction, in Japanese), 25th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, ISBN 4-09-121881-4, page 15:

     一 (いち)流 (りゅう)大 (だい)学 (がく)、東 (とう)京 (きょう)・青 (あお)山 (やま)マンション暮 (ぐ)らし。ラグビー部 (ぶ)、おまけにベンツ。

     Ichiryū daigaku, Tōkyō Aoyama manshon gurashi. Ragubī-bu, omake ni Bentsu.

     Studies at a top-class university, lives in a Tokyo Aoyama condo. Plays on a rugby team, and on top of that, has a Benz.

Coordinate terms

• 大学校 (だいがっこう) ‎(daigakkō, “academy”)
• 保育園 (ほいくえん) ‎(hoikuen), 保育所 (ほいくしょ) ‎(hoikusho, “nursery school”)
• 小学校 (しょうがっこう) ‎(shōgakkō, “elementary school”)
• 中学校 (ちゅうがっこう) ‎(chūgakkō, “junior high school”)
• 高等学校 (こうとうがっこう) ‎(kōtōgakkō, “high school, senior high school”)
• 高校 (こうこう) ‎(kōkō, “high school”)
• 幼稚園 (ようちえん) ‎(yōchien, “kindergarten”)
• 大学校 (だいがっこう) ‎(daigakkō, “academy”)
• 大学院 (だいがくいん) ‎(daigakuin, “graduate school”)

Derived terms

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.