同級生

Japanese

Kanji in this term
同	級	生
どう Grade: 2	きゅう Grade: 3	せい Grade: 1
kan'yōon	kan'on

Etymology

Compound of 同(どう)級(きゅう) (dōkyū) + 生(せい) (-sei, “student”).

First attested in 1901.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どーきゅうせー [dòókyúꜜùsèè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ːkʲɨːse̞ː]

Noun

同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい) • (dōkyūsei) ^{←どうきふせい (doukifusei)?}

1. [from 1901] a classmate (student of the same class)

   Synonym: クラスメート (kurasumēto)

   いやな同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい)に出(で)会(あ)った。

   Iya na dōkyūsei ni deatta.

   I encountered a classmate that I did not want to meet.

   • 2009 July 23, Mitsuru Adachi, “どこ吹く風 [Wherever the Wind Blows]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [Short Program], volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 40:

     奴(やつ)とは高(こう)校(こう)時(じ)代(だい)の同(どう)級(きゅう)生(せい)。

     Yatsu to wa kōkō jidai no dōkyūsei.

     That guy was my classmate in high school.

2. a schoolmate who attends school in the same year

   Synonyms: 校友 (kōyū), 学友 (gakuyū)

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

See also

• 同(どう)期(き)生(せい) (dōkisei)
• 同(どう)窓(そう)生(せい) (dōsōsei)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.