# 大学
## Chinese

* For pronunciation and definitions of 大学 – see 大學 (“university; college; etc.”). (This term is the simplified form of 大學).
* 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 |
| だい Grade: 1 | がく Grade: 1 |
| goon ||
* Alternative spelling
* 大學 (kyūjitai)

### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 大學 (MC dajH haewk).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) だいがく [dàígákú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [da̠iɡa̠kɯ̟]

### Proper noun

大(だい)学(がく) • (Daigaku)
* (Confucianism) Great Learning

#### Coordinate terms

* 大(だい)学(がく) (Daigaku, “Great Learning”)
* 中(ちゅう)庸(よう) (Chūyō, “Doctrine of the Mean”)
* 論(ろん)語(ご) (Rongo, “Analects”)
* 孟(もう)子(し) (Mōshi, “Mencius”)
* 詩(しき)経(ょう) (Shikyō, “Classic of Poetry”)
* 書(しょ)経(きょう) (Shokyō, “Book of Documents”)
* 礼(らい)記(き) (Raiki, “Book of Rites”)
* 易(えき)経(きょう) (Ekikyō, “I Ching”)
* 春(しゅん)秋(じゅう) (Shunjū, “Spring and Autumn Annals”)

### Noun

大(だい)学(がく) • (daigaku)
* a university; a college
** 1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “近況 [How It’s Going Now]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 15:
    一(いち)流(りゅう)大(だい)学(がく)、東(とう)京(きょう)・青(あお)山(やま)マンション暮(ぐ)らし。ラグビー部(ぶ)、おまけにベンツ。
       Ichiryū daigaku, Tōkyō Aoyama manshon gurashi. Ragubī-bu, omake ni Bentsu.
       Goes to a top-class university, lives in a condo in Aoyama, Tokyo. Plays on a rugby team, and on top of that, has a Merc.

#### Coordinate terms

* 大(だい)学(がっ)校(こう) (daigakkō, “academy”)
* 保(ほ)育(いく)園(えん) (hoikuen), 保(ほ)育(いく)所(しょ) (hoikusho, “nursery school”)
* 小(しょう)学(がっ)校(こう) (shōgakkō, “elementary school”)
* 中(ちゅう)学(がっ)校(こう) (chūgakkō, “junior high school, middle 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”)
* 幼(よう)稚(ち)園(えん) (yōchien, “kindergarten”)
* 大(だい)学(がく)院(いん) (daigakuin, “graduate school”)

#### Derived terms

* 大学進学適性試験 (“SAT”)
* 大(だい)学(がく)院(いん) (daigakuin, “graduate school”)
* 大(だい)学(がく)教(きょう)育(いく) (daigaku kyōiku)
* 大(だい)学(がく)教(きょう)授(じゅ) (daigaku kyōju)
* 大(だい)学(がく)制(せい)度(ど) (daigaku seido)
* 大(だい)学(がく)生(せい) (daigakusei)
* 大(だい)学(がく)浪(ろう)人(にん) (daigaku rōnin)
* 医(い)科(か)大(だい)学(がく) (ika daigaku)
* 音(おん)楽(がく)大(だい)学(がく) (ongaku daigaku)
* 工(こう)業(ぎょう)大(だい)学(がく) (kōgyō daigaku)
* 私(し)立(りつ)大(だい)学(がく) (shiritsu daigaku, “a private university”)
* 商(しょう)科(か)大(だい)学(がく) (shōka daigaku)
* 商(しょう)船(せん)大(だい)学(がく) (shōsen daigaku)
* 女(じょ)子(し)大(だい)学(がく) (joshi daigaku, “women's university”)
* 水(すい)産(さん)大(だい)学(がく) (suisan daigaku)
* 総(そう)合(ごう)大(だい)学(がく) (sōgō daigaku, “university”)
* 単(たん)科(か)大(だい)学(がく) (tanka daigaku, “college”)
* 短(たん)期(き)大(だい)学(がく) (tanki daigaku)
* 美(び)術(じゅつ)大(だい)学(がく) (bijutsu daigaku)
* 放(ほう)送(そう)大(だい)学(がく) (hōsō daigaku)
* 薬(やっ)科(か)大(だい)学(がく) (yakka daigaku)
* 大学卒
* 大学病院
* 大学紛争
* 大学寮
* 国立大学
* 州立大学
* 新制大学
* 夏期大学
* 各大学
* 学芸大学
* 工科大学
* 理科大学
* 陸軍大学

### See also

* 四(し)書(しょ) (Shisho)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.