Illustration: The open entrance of a Japanese high school reveals a shoe-locker foyer leading into a multistory classroom building. Older teenage students in coordinated uniforms arrive with school bags, while others carry tennis rackets toward the courts beside the gymnasium.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

高こう校こう

koukou

high school

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしの息子むすこは、高校こうこうに入学にゅうがくした。

    My son entered high school.

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  2. 私わたしは高校こうこう2年生ねんせいだ。

    I am in the second year of high school.

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  3. 彼かれは高校こうこうの生徒せいとです。

    He is a student at a high school.

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Kanji in 高校

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 校school; proofreadOnコウ・キョウ

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