社会
しゃかい
hepburn shakai
society
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 学校を出て社会に入りました。I left school and entered society.
- 社会の問題について話し合いました。We discussed problems in society.
Collocations
社会に出る社会問題社会人国際社会社会の仕組み
Mnemonic
社会 shakai — 社 (gathering, originally a shrine community) + 会 (meeting). Both kanji mean "gathering," reinforcing each other. The derived word 社会人 (shakaijin) refers, in a distinctly Japanese way, to a working adult who has left student life.
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