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塾

cram school
Stroke count: 14

Readings

On readingジュク
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. cram schoolRtK
    彼は塾で勉強している。He studies at a cram school.tatoeba
    彼は週に三回塾に行く。He goes to a tutorial school three days a week.tatoeba
  2. private school
  1. private tutoring school
  2. juku

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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receive · tall · top hat (亠) · mouth (口) · child (子) · children · round · nine (九) · baseball · drop (丶) · soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 331

Compound words

私塾しじゅく
small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)
塾生じゅくせい
cram school student; student of a private-tutoring school
塾長じゅくちょう
principal of a private school
家塾かじゅく
government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home
画塾がじゅく
private painting school
義塾ぎじゅく
charity school
入塾にゅうじゅく
enrolling at a cram school
英語塾えいごじゅく
private school for the study of English
学習塾がくしゅうじゅく
cram school
塾通いじゅくがよい
attending cram school
慶應義塾けいおうぎじゅく
Keio (Private University)
慶應義塾大学けいおうぎじゅくだいがく
Keio University
慶應義塾大学産業研究所けいおうぎじゅくだいがくさんぎょうけんきゅうじょ
Keio Economic Observatory

Additional Examples

私の塾はここから遠い。
My cram school is a long way from here.tatoeba
あの子を無理に塾に通わせるのは反対だね。
I'm against us forcing the child to go to cram school.tatoeba

Stroke Order

14 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 塾

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