しょうがく
Meanings
Noun
1. 夏・殷・周において八歳以上の児童を教育した学校。
2. 近世以前の中国における、経学のひとつで文字・音韻を研究する学問。
3. 「小学校」の略。
Kanji used
small
study
Pitch accent
しょ
うがく
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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)
① 小学校に在籍している児童。
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.