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ＪＳ (ジェー・エス) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ＪＳ

also: ジェーエス · ジェイエス

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Meanings

1

female elementary school student

slang›abbreviation

Slang abbreviation from 女子小学生 (joshi shōgakusei). Used mainly in informal online contexts.

ネットでＪＳという言こと葉ばを見みかけた。
I saw the term JS on the internet.

2

Abbreviation for JavaScript, used in computing contexts.

See also: ＪａｖａＳｃｒｉｐｔ

このサイトはＪＳで動うごいています。

Related words

小しょう学がく生せいN2sense 1
ＪＳ is slang specifically for a female elementary school student, while 小学生 is the neutral, gender-unspecific term for any elementary school student.
ＪａｖａＳｃｒｉｐｔ sense 2
ＪＳ is the common shorthand used in casual or technical contexts, while JavaScript is the full, formal name of the programming language.

Don't confuse with

This site runs on 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.

Etymology

Abbreviation. Sense 1 is from 女子小学生 (joshi shōgakusei). Sense 2 is from JavaScript.