Illustration: Morning arrivals stream into a Japanese elementary school, with its classroom windows, entrance shoe lockers and adjoining playground all visible. Children carrying school backpacks change into indoor shoes while a teacher greets them at the entrance.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

学がっ校こう

gakkou

school

Example sentences

  1. 今日きょうは学校がっこうがない。

    There is no school today.

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  2. 明日あした学校がっこうでね。

    See you tomorrow at school.

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  3. 学校がっこうへ行いきなさい。

    Go to school.

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Kanji in 学校

  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ
  • 校school; proofreadOnコウ・キョウ

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