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小学生
しょうがくせい
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elementary school pupil
Shōgakusei is 小学 (shōgaku, “elementary school”) plus 生 (-sei, “student; pupil”).
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In a sentence
小学生は６年間学校に通う。
Elementary school children go to school for a term of six years.
彼らはそのころ小学生でした。
They were school children then.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “小(しょう)学(がく) (shōgaku, “elementary school”) + 生(せい) (-sei, “student; pupil”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 小学生 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.