ショウガク
Meanings
Noun
Abbreviation
1. elementary school; primary school; grade school
2. school for children over eight years old in ancient China
3. traditional Chinese philology
Pitch accent
ショ
ウガク
Composed of
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
Examples (2 in total)
He is in fourth grade of elementary school.
My son who is in the fifth grade has transferred from Shizuoka to an elementary school in Nagoya.