Illustration: At the entrance to a Japanese daycare room, a parent carrying a work bag hands a toddler's small belongings to an apron-wearing caregiver. The toddler has already toddled toward another staff member seated beside two younger children playing with soft blocks.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

保ほ育いく園えん

hoikuen

daycare center, nursery school

Example sentences

  1. しげみちゃんを保育園ほいくえんに迎むかえに行いってもらえる？

    Could you please pick Shigemi up for me at the day-care center?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一番下いちばんしたの子こは毎日午前中まいにちごぜんちゅうを保育園ほいくえんですごしました。

    The youngest child spent every morning at a nursery.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 向むかいの保育園ほいくえんから、保育士ほいくしだろう男おとこの声こえで「ガオー、食たべちゃうぞ！」というのが聞きこえて来くる。

    I hear some guy, presumably a caretaker, going "Rawr, I’m going to eat you!" from the nursery school across the street.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 保育園

  • 保protect; guaranteeOnホ・ホウKunたもつ
  • 育bring up; grow upOnイクKunそだつ・そだち・そだてる
  • 園park; gardenOnエンKunその

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