学童

がくどう

Meanings

1. Noun schoolchild; pupil
2. after-school childcare See also: 学童保育 (がくどうほいく).

Kanji

• 学 study. Read as ガク.
• 童 youngster. Read as ドウ.

Example sentences

• 学童たちはどっと笑った。
  The pupils burst out laughing.
• ポケットの計算機は靴下と同じくらい安く買え、また、鉛筆や消しゴムと同じくらい、何千人というイギリスの学童にとっては生活に不可欠のものである。
  Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.
• 彼らは２人とも学童である。
  They are both school children.

Words containing 学童

• 学童疎開 (がくどうそかい) evacuation of school children (from major cities to more rural areas, esp. during late World War II)
• 学童保育 (がくどうほいく) after-school childcare

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