Illustration: Inside a Japanese elementary classroom, young pupils sit at individual child-sized desks while their teacher crouches beside a pupil assembling wooden counting blocks. Randoseru hang from the sides of nearby desks, and indoor shoes peek out beneath chairs.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

小しょう学がく

shougaku

elementary school

Usually appears in phrases such as 小学五年. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 小学しょうがく5年ねんの息子むすこが静岡しずおかから名古屋なごやの小学校しょうがっこうに転入てんにゅうしました。

    My fifth-year junior school son has transferred into a school in Nagoya from Shizuoka.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一級いっきゅうと二級にきゅうは小学しょうがく6年生以上ねんせいいじょうが受審資格じゅしんしかくを有ゆうする。

    Students in sixth grade or above are eligible to take the first- and second-level exams.

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

  3. 弟おとうとは小学しょうがく一年いちねんからピアノを習ならっています。

    My younger brother has been taking piano lessons since first grade.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 小学

  • 小little; smallOnショウKunちいさい・こ-・お-
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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