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JLPT N1
Grade 8

Meanings

dormitory
hostel
villa
tea pavillion

Readings

On — Chinese-derived reading, usually for compounds
リョウ

Common Words

ょう
Noun
Freq #8175
1

hostel; dormitory

Examples
私の大学にはがあります。
My university has a dorm.
2

Archaic

bureau (government department beneath a ministry under the ritsuryō system)

3

Archaic

tea-ceremony room

4

Archaic

villa

かさ
Noun
Freq #13508
1

Usu. 官,司

office; official

2

chief; head

3

司 only

person (usually a woman) who officiates at religious ceremonies (on the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa)

じょしりょう
Noun
Freq #25610
1

women's dormitory

Examples
校門のところで、女子寮の方から登校してきた美留と鉢合わせした。
I bumped into Miru at the school gates, just as she was arriving from the girls' dormitory.
くせいりょう
Noun
Freq #28918
1

student accommodation; student dormitory

ょうせい
Noun
Freq #31178
1

boarder; boarding student

Examples
「ちょっと、寮生相手にアンケートでもとってみる?」「あっ、いわゆるひとつのマーケティングリサーチだな」
"Say, shall we try a questionnaire with the boarding students?" "Ah! One of those things they call 'marketing research'."
んりょうせい
Noun
~の Adj.
Freq #36481
1

system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)

ょうちょう
Noun
Freq #36832
1

dormitory leader; dormitory superintendent

ょうせいかつ
Noun
Freq #40645
1

life in a dormitory; dormitory life

ょうぼ
Noun
Freq #46638
1

housemother; dorm mother

にゅうりょう
~する Verb
Noun
Freq #50629
1

moving into a dormitory

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