私立学校

私立学校

See also: 私立學校

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 私立学校 – see 私立學校 (“private school”). (This term, 私立学校, is the simplified form of 私立學校.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
私	立	学	校
こう Grade: 6	りつ Grade: 1	がく > がっ Grade: 1	こう Grade: 1
kan’on	kan’yōon	goon	kan’on

Alternative spelling
私立學校 (kyūjitai)

Compound of 私立 (shiritsu, “private, privately funded”) +‎ 学校 (gakkō, “school”).[1][2][3]

First cited to a legal text from 1874.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しりつが​っこー [shìrítsú gáꜜkkòò] (Nakadaka – [4])[3]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾʲit͡sɨᵝ ɡa̠k̚ko̞ː]

Noun

私立学校(しりつがっこう) • (shiritsu gakkō) ^{←しりつがくかう (siritu gakukau)?} (counter 校)

1. private school (US), public school (UK)

See also

• 公立学校(こうりつがっこう) (kōritsu gakkō, “public school (US), state school or private school (UK)”)

References

1. “私立学校”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
2. “私立学校”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN