教室
きょうしつ
hepburn kyoushitsu
classroom
Part of speech · noun
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教teach
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室room
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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 — 教 (to teach) + 室 (room): "a room of teaching." Not only a school's cell but the street's lessons borrow this kanji to live — 料理教室, 英会話教室, 書道教室, ピアノ教室 line up in a row. The same 教 branches out into 教える, 教科書, 宗教. Kanji-reading kin: 教 reads Korean 'gyo', Mandarin jiào.
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