ＪＫ

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Meanings

1

female high school student

slangabbreviation

Slang abbreviation from 女子高生 (joshi kōsei). Used in casual conversation and media, often with a trendy or youthful connotation.

See also: 女子高生

あのカフェはＪＫに人にん気きがある。
That café is popular with high school girls.
ＪＫの制せい服ふく姿すがたを見みかけた。
I saw a high school girl in her uniform.

2

isn't it obvious?; that's common sense

internet slangabbreviation

Internet slang abbreviation from 常識的に考えて (jōshikitekini kangaete). Used sarcastically or dismissively online to imply something should be obvious.

See also: 常考

そんなのＪＫでしょ。
That's just common sense, isn't it?
ＪＫ、わかるよね？
It's obvious, right?

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Usage patterns

現げん役えき〈人ひと〉a current/actual JK (as opposed to someone just dressed as one)
彼かの女じょは現げん役えきＪＫです。
She's an actual high school girl.
それはＪＫused to dismiss something as obvious common sense
そんなの謝あやまるのが普ふ通つう、それはＪＫでしょ。
Of course you apologize for that, isn't it obvious?

Related words

女じょ子し高こう生せい sense 1
女子高生 is the full, standard term for a female high school student, while ＪＫ is its casual slang abbreviation.
常じょう考こう sense 2
常考 and ＪＫ are both internet-slang abbreviations meaning 'isn't it obvious', differing only in which syllables of 常識的に考えて they take.

Don't confuse with

ＪＳ
ＪＳ refers to a female elementary school student while ＪＫ refers to a female high school student, so the two abbreviations are easy to mix up.
ＪＣ
ＪＣ means a female junior high student while ＪＫ (女子高校生) means a female high school student, so the two slang abbreviations are easy to mix up.

Counted with

名めいN2
Used in contexts like headcounts, reservations, or formal enumeration of people.

Written forms

ＪＫ
Standard full-width abbreviation for 女子高生 (female high school student) or, in internet slang, 常識的に考えて (isn't it obvious?).
ｊｋ
Half-width variant, common in casual digital text.

Etymology

Abbreviation. Sense 1 is from 女子高生 (joshi kōsei). Sense 2 is from 常識的に考えて (jōshikitekini kangaete). Both are modern slang coinages.