Illustration: In a high school entrance corridor during lessons, a teenager in everyday clothes hands a neatly folded school uniform and indoor shoes to a concerned teacher. Beside them, their shoe locker stands completely empty, and an open cardboard box contains all their personal school belongings.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう退たい

chuutai

to leave school before graduating

Example sentences

  1. トムは高校こうこうを中退ちゅうたいした。

    Tom dropped out of high school.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれは２年生ねんせいのとき学校がっこうを中退ちゅうたいした。

    He dropped out of school in his second year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 国文科こくぶんかに転てんじた後のちに大学だいがくを中退ちゅうたいした。

    He dropped out of university after changing his major to Japanese literature.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 中退

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
  • 退retreat; withdrawOnタイKunしりぞく・しりぞける・ひく

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