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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

63 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: study, learning, science

Kunyomi: まな.ぶ

Onyomi: ガク

Composition: 小 冖 子

学

Radical

Radical: 子

Reading: こ

Meaning: child, seed

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

学生(がくせい)   student

学者(がくしゃ)   scholar

大学(だいがく)   university

大学院(だいがくいん)   graduate school

奨学金(しょうがくきん)   scholarship

人類学(じんるいがく)   anthropology

言語学(げんごがく)   linguistics

学校(がっこう)   school

学期(がっき)   term, semester

学ぶ(まなぶ)   study

Onyomi Examples

学 (ガク) learning, scholarship, study, erudition, knowledge, education, study of ..., -ology, -ics

学位 (ガクイ) (academic) degree

短期大学 (タンキダイガク) junior college, community college, vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution

法医学 (ホウイガク) forensic medicine, forensic pathology, medical jurisprudence, legal medicine

Kunyomi Examples

学ぶ (まなぶ) to learn, to study, to take lessons in

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