同級生

Japanese
Kanji in this term
同 級 生
どう
Grade: 2		 きゅう
Grade: 3		 せい
Grade: 1
kan’yōon kan’on

Etymology

Compound of 同(どう)級(きゅう) (dōkyū) + 生(せい) (-sei, “student”).[1][2]

First attested in 1901.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) どーきゅ​うせー [dòókyúꜜùsèè] (Nakadaka – [3])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [do̞ːkʲɨᵝːse̞ː]

Noun

同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい) • (dōkyūsei) ←どうきふせい (doukifusei)?

  1. [from 1901] a classmate (student of the same class)
    Synonym: クラスメート (kurasumēto)
    いやな同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい)に出(で)会(あ)った。
    Iya na dōkyūsei ni deatta.
    I encountered a classmate that I did not want to meet.
    • 2009 July 23, Mitsuru Adachi, “どこ吹く風 [Wherever the Wind Blows]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) (SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム)) [Short Program], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 40:
      奴(やつ)とは高(こう)校(こう)時(じ)代(だい)の同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい)。
      Yatsu to wa kōkō jidai no dōkyūsei.
      That guy was my classmate in high school.
  2. a schoolmate who attends school in the same year
    Synonyms: 校友 (kōyū), 学友 (gakuyū)
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

See also
  • 同(どう)期(き)生(せい) (dōkisei)
  • 同(どう)窓(そう)生(せい) (dōsōsei)

References
  1. “同級生”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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