Illustration: Outside a Japanese high school gymnasium after a graduation ceremony, an older teenager in a school uniform holds a closed diploma tube against their chest. A small ceremonial flower is pinned to their lapel, and classmates carrying matching tubes exchange farewell bows in the doorway.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

高こう卒そつ

kousotsu

high school graduate

An informal abbreviation of 高等学校卒業. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. しかし、1990年代以降ねんだいいこうは不況ふきょうや大学進学者だいがくしんがくしゃの増加ぞうかなどで高卒こうそつ者しゃの採用さいようを取とり止やめる企業きぎょうが増ふえたため成人せいじんを迎むかえる従業員じゅうぎょういんも年々減少ねんねんげんしょうしている。

    However, since the number of companies which stopped hiring high school graduates due to the recession and increase in the number of high school graduates who went to university has increased in and after 1990s, workers entering adulthood decreased yearly.

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

  2. 私わたしは高卒こうそつで、今いまは料理人りょうりにんとして働はたらいている。

    I graduated from high school and now work as a cook.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 学歴がくれきを聞きかれたので、高卒こうそつだと答こたえた。

    When asked about my education, I said I was a high school graduate.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 高卒

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 卒graduate; soldierOnソツ・シュツKunそっする・おえる・おわる

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