Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 塾じゅく に 通かよ う to attend a cram school regularly
He goes to cram school every day.
塾じゅく に 入はい る to enroll in a cram school
I decided to enroll in a new cram school starting next month.
塾じゅく をやめる to quit a cram school
My grades didn't improve, so I ended up quitting the cram school.
塾じゅく で 〈 事こと 〉 を 教おそ わる to be taught a subject at cram school
I'm being taught math at cram school.
塾じゅく の 帰かえ り on the way home from cram school
I stopped by the convenience store on the way home from cram school.
Kanji 塾 cram school, private school Related words 学習塾 is the fuller, more formal term for a cram school, while 塾 is the everyday abbreviated form most people use.
予備校 specifically means a full-time prep school for high-school graduates studying for university entrance exams, whereas 塾 covers part-time tutoring at any school level.
塾 is the general, everyday word for a cram or tutoring school, while 私塾 stresses that the school is privately run and can also refer to Edo-period academies.
Word family· 18 cram school student; student at a private tutoring school
principal of a private school; head of a cram school
enrolling at a cram school; entering a private tutoring academy
small private school; cram school · private school (Edo period); Confucian private academy
cram school lunch box
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cram school teacher; teaching at a cram school
principal of a cram school; head of a private tutoring academy
private school run by a scholar at home (historical)
private painting school
charity school; private academy
leaving a cram school; dropping out of a cram school
attending a cram school; commuting to a cram school
cram school teacher
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Written forms 塾じゅく Usage 98%
Standard kanji spelling; the word is almost always written this way.
じゅく Usage 2%
Kana spelling is readable but uncommon in practice; the kanji is strongly preferred.
Etymology From Middle Chinese 塾 (dzyuwk, “school, private teaching place”). The character originally referred to a side room or a place for study within a residence. In modern Japanese, it has become the standard word for a private after-school tutoring academy.
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