Illustration: In a Japanese junior high science classroom, boys and girls in matching school uniforms gather around the same laboratory table. A girl steadies a model bridge while a boy carefully adds small weights; their classmates crouch together to watch its supports bend.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

共きょう学がく

kyougaku

coeducation

Example sentences

  1. 長ながらく男子校だんしこうであったが、平成へいせい18年ねんから男女だんじょ共学きょうがくになった。

    It had been a boys' school for a long time, but in 2006 it was reorganized as a coeducational school.

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

  2. 男子限定だんしげんていや女子限定じょしげんていの寺子屋てらこやも少すくなくはなかったが、男女だんじょ共学きょうがくの寺子屋てらこやが多数たすうであった。

    There were some Terakoya which only took boys or girls, but most Terakoya were coed.

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

  3. この高校こうこうは共学きょうがくだが、女子じょしのほうが多おおい。

    This high school is coeducational, but it has more girls than boys.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 共学

  • 共together; bothOnキョウKunとも・ともに
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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