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学園

がくえん

educational institution, school

Mnemonic

Learning with a wall drawn the whole way round it, grounds and all, which is more than a school building. The same gawk がく as 学生, and an en えん of garden. Hers is out in the suburbs: がくえん.

Worth knowing

学校 がっこう is the ordinary word for a school. 学園 is grander, a campus with grounds, and it turns up in the names of private ones.

Built from

study, learn
Sparks over a cover over 子 a child, a child under a roof, learning.
garden, park
囗 a border drawn the whole way round a piece of ground, with everything that grows in it kept inside.

Words sharing these kanji

school to learn, to study student

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