教室
きょうしつ
hepburn kyoushitsu
classroom
Part of speech · noun
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Examples
- 教室で先生を待ちます。I wait for the teacher in the classroom.
- 料理教室に通っています。I attend a cooking class.
Collocations
教室 (kyoushitsu, classroom)料理教室 (ryouri kyoushitsu, cooking class)英会話教室 (eikaiwa kyoushitsu, English conversation class)お料理教室 (oryouri kyoushitsu, polite "cooking class")教室の窓 (kyoushitsu no mado, classroom window)
Mnemonic
教室 kyoushitsu — kanji "teach (教) + room (室)" = a room of teaching. Covers both school classrooms and private hobby/lesson studios. The "~教室" business naming is huge in Japan: 料理教室 (cooking), 英会話教室 (English conversation), 書道教室 (calligraphy), ピアノ教室 (piano). Inside a school, the gym is 体育館 (taiikukan) and university lecture halls are 講義室 (kougishitsu). Same 教: 教える (to teach), 教科書 (textbook), 宗教 (religion).
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