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大学生
だいがくせい
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college student, university student
Daigakusei is 大学 (daigaku, “university”) plus 生 (-sei, “student; pupil”).
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In a sentence
大学生です。
I am a university student.
大学生ですか。
Are you a college student?
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What Wiktionary says
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- “大(だい)学(がく) (daigaku, “university”) + 生(せい) (-sei, “student; pupil”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 大学生 (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.