Illustration: A teacher welcomes a pupil into an elementary classroom where the other children already have occupied desks and established groups. The newcomer holds a framed class photograph showing themselves beneath a visibly different school building, with a different school crest on their old cap.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

転てん校こう

tenkou

to change schools

Example sentences

彼かれは昨年さくねん転校てんこうした。
He changed schools last year.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
転校てんこうしてきたばかりで友達ともだちのいなかった僕ぼくに、初はじめて話はなしかけてくれたのがトムでした。
The first person to talk to me, when I had just switched schools and had no friends, was Tom.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼女かのじょは友達ともだちから弾はじき出だされ、結局けっきょく転校てんこうした。
She was ostracized by her friends and ended up transferring schools.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 転校

転revolve; turn aroundOnテンKunころがる・ころげる・ころがす
校school; proofreadOnコウ・キョウ

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