大学院

See also: 大學院

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 大学院 – see 大學院 (“graduate school; postgraduate school”). (This term is the simplified form of 大學院).

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

Japanese

Kanji in this term
大	学	院
だい Grade: 1	がく Grade: 1	いん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
大學院 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

大学 (daigaku) +‎ 院 (-in)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) だいがく​いん [dàígákúꜜìǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [da̠iɡa̠kɯ̟ᵝĩɴ]

Noun

大(だい)学(がく)院(いん) • (daigakuin) 

1. graduate school

Coordinate terms

• 保(ほ)育(いく)所(しょ) (hoikusho, “nursery school”)
• 幼(よう)稚(ち)園(えん) (yōchien, “kindergarten”)
• 小(しょう)学(がっ)校(こう) (shōgakkō, “elementary school, primary school”)
• 中(ちゅう)学(がっ)校(こう) (chūgakkō, “junior high school”)
• 高(こう)等(とう)学(がっ)校(こう) (kōtōgakkō, “high school, senior high school”)
• 高(こう)校(こう) (kōkō, “high school”)
• 大(だい)学(がっ)校(こう) (daigakkō, “college, university”)
• 大(だい)学(がく) (daigaku, “college, university”)

Derived terms

• 大(だい)学(がく)院(いん)生(せい) (daigakuinsei, “graduate student”)
• 法(ほう)科(か)大(だい)学(がく)院(いん) (hōkadaigakuin, “law school”)
• 大(だい)学(がく)院(いん)大(だい)学(がく) (daigakuindaigaku)

See also

• 大学(だいがく) (daigaku)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.