教きょう養よう

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

culture; education; cultivation; sophistication; refinement

Refers to a broad, cultivated understanding gained through education, exposure to the arts, and life experience. Often implies a well-rounded, sophisticated character rather than just academic knowledge.

彼かれは教きょう養ようが深ふかく、どんな話わ題だいにもついていける。
He is highly cultured and can keep up with any topic.
読どく書しょは教きょう養ようを高たかめるのに役やく立だつ。
Reading helps improve one's cultivation.

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Usage patterns

教きょう養ようを身みにつけるto acquire culture/education
彼かれは本ほんをたくさん読よんで教きょう養ようを身みにつけた。
He acquired broad culture and knowledge by reading many books.
〈人ひと〉は教きょう養ようがあるsomeone is cultured/well-educated
彼かの女じょは教きょう養ようがある人ひとだ。
She is a cultured, well-educated person.
教きょう養ようを深ふかめるto deepen one's culture/knowledge
旅りょ行こうを通つうじて教きょう養ようを深ふかめることができた。
I was able to deepen my cultural knowledge through travel.

Expressions

教きょう養ようのないuneducated; uncultured; crude

Kanji

教teach, faith, doctrine
養foster, bring up, rear

Related words

教きょう育いくN4
教育 refers to the formal process of schooling or instruction, while 教養 refers to the cultivated refinement and broad knowledge that results from it.
知ち識しきN3
知識 is factual or technical knowledge, whereas 教養 implies a deeper, integrated cultural understanding that shapes one's character.
学がく識しき
学識 emphasizes scholarly learning and expertise in a field, while 教養 is a broader, more general sense of cultural refinement.
学がく芸げいN1
教養 emphasizes a person's personal cultivation and broad knowledge, while 学芸 refers to the academic and artistic disciplines themselves, especially in institutional contexts.

Opposites

無む知ちN1
無知 means ignorance or lack of knowledge, the direct opposite of the cultivated understanding implied by 教養.

Word family· 8

教きょう養よう人じん
person of culture; educated person; highbrow
教きょう養よう部ぶ
general education division (historical); college of general education
無む教きょう養よう
uneducated; uncultured; ignorant
一いっ般ぱん教きょう養よう
general education; liberal arts; general knowledge
教きょう養よう学がく部ぶ
faculty of liberal arts; college of liberal arts

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教きょう養よう小しょう説せつ
Bildungsroman; novel of personal development
教きょう養よう番ばん組ぐみ
educational program; educational show
教きょう養よう課か程てい
general education course; liberal arts curriculum

Etymology

From 教 (teach, instruct) and 養 (nourish, cultivate). The compound originally referred to the cultivation of the mind through teaching and nourishment, and now denotes cultural refinement and education.