VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

留学

りゅうがく

hepburn ryuugaku

study abroad

Part of speech · noun / suru-verb

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Examples

来年、アメリカに留学する予定です。
I plan to study abroad in America next year.
留学経験が私を変えました。
My study-abroad experience changed me.

Collocations

留学 (ryuugaku, study abroad)留学生 (ryuugakusei, foreign student)海外 (kaigai, overseas)交換留学 (koukan ryuugaku, exchange program)帰国子女 (kikoku shijo, returnee)

Mnemonic

Ryuugaku (留学) is the Sino-Japanese "study abroad" — 留 (stay) + 学 (study) = "staying to study." Noun or suru-verb. Cluster: ryuugakusei (foreign student), koukan ryuugaku (exchange program), tanki ryuugaku (short-term study abroad), waakingu-horidee (working holiday, loanword). Japan's Monbukagakushou (MEXT) scholarships fund inbound and outbound students. Kikoku shijo (returnee children, born to parents working abroad) is a uniquely Japanese social term — schools and employers operate kikoku shijo waku (special-entry quotas) for them. Korean "yu-hak / hae-oe yeon-su / gyo-hwan haksaeng" parallels plus Japan's kikoku shijo social-code layer.

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Japanese social term for children returned from parents' overseas posting?