Illustration: In a compact commercial classroom near a Japanese railway station, older teenagers and young adults in a mixture of school uniforms and everyday clothing work through a timed mock examination at narrow individual desks.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

予よ備び校こう

yobikou

exam preparatory school

Example sentences

  1. 駅えきから伸のびるメインストリート沿ぞいには学習塾がくしゅうじゅくや予備校よびこうなどの教育関係きょういくかんけいの企業きぎょうの進出しんしゅつが著いちじるしい。

    Along the main street extending from the station there are many education-related enterprises, such as cram schools and preparatory schools.

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

  2. 予備校よびこう講師こうしの出口汪いでぐちひろし、「メキキの会かい」会長出口光かいちょういでぐちひかりは曾孫そうそんにあたる。

    Prep school instructor Hiroshi DEGUCHI and Chairperson of 'Mekiki no kai' Hikaru DEGUCHI are his great-grandchildren.

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

  3. 兄あには大学受験だいがくじゅけんのために予備校よびこうに通かよっている。

    My older brother attends a prep school for his university entrance exams.

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Kanji in 予備校

  • 予beforehand; previousOnヨ・シャKunあらかじめ
  • 備equip; provisionOnビKunそなえる・そなわる・つぶさに
  • 校school; proofreadOnコウ・キョウ

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