学生

がくせい

student

Mnemonic

Learning as your life for a few years, which is what the two characters actually say. He gawks がく and says せい very little. My brother is one: がくせい.

Worth knowing

生徒せいと is a pupil at school. 学生 is properly a university student, though it gets used more loosely than that.

Built from

学

study, learn

Sparks over a cover over 子 a child, a child under a roof, learning.

生

life, raw

A pictograph, a shoot pushing up out of the ground.

Words sharing these kanji

学校 school 学園 educational institution, school 学ぶ to learn, to study 先生 teacher 生きる to live, to exist 生む to have children 生まれる to be born 生活 life, lifestyle 人生 (human) life 生徒 pupil, student 発生 occurrence, happening 一生 a lifetime

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