大学院

See also: 大學院

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 大学院 – see 大學院 (“graduate school ^US; postgraduate school ^UK; etc.”). (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(だいがく) (daigaku) + 院(いん) (-in)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) だいがくいん [dàígákúꜜìǹ] (Nakadaka – [4])
IPA^(key): [da̠iɡa̠kɯ̟ĩɴ]

Noun

大(だい)学(がく)院(いん) • (daigakuin)

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)
学院(がくいん) (gakuin)

References

Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN