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Kanji Detail for 塾 - "private school, cram school, academy"
塾
- Meaning
塾 means "private school, cram school, academy."
Private school - A place for supplementary education.
Cram school - An institution for intensive study.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
cram school; private school
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
village school; private tutorage
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
private school
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
village school; private tutorage
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A hall beside the gate. In ancient palace architecture, the rooms on either side of the main gate were called 塾. This was where children studied, hence called 家塾. Later, old-style private schools were called 私塾; their teachers were called 塾師.
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