"国民学校" meaning in Japanese

See 国民学校 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ko̞kɯ̟mʲiŋ ɡa̠k̚ko̞ː] Forms: 国民学校 ^ [canonical] (ruby: (こく), (みん), (がっ), (こう)), kokumin gakkō [romanization], kokumin gakukau [romanization], こくみんがくかう [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Compound of 国(こく)民(みん) (kokumin, “nationals, citizens”) + 学(がっ)校(こう) (gakkō, “school”). Calque of German Volksschule (“primary school”, literally “people-school”). Etymology templates: {{ja-compound|国%民|こく%みん|学%校|がっ%こう|t1=nationals, citizens|t2=school}} 国(こく)民(みん) (kokumin, “nationals, citizens”) + 学(がっ)校(こう) (gakkō, “school”), {{calque|ja|de|Volksschule|lit=people-school|t=primary school}} Calque of German Volksschule (“primary school”, literally “people-school”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|こくみん がっこう|hhira=こくみん がくかう}} 国(こく)民(みん)学(がっ)校(こう) • (kokumin gakkō) ^(←こくみんがくかう (kokumin gakukau)?)
  1. (historical) elementary school, national elementary school Wikipedia link: ja:国民学校 Tags: historical Related terms: 尋常小学校 (jinjō shōgakkō) (ruby: (じん), (じょう), (しょう), (がっ), (こう)), 高等小学校 (kōtō shōgakkō) (ruby: (こう), (とう), (しょう), (がっ), (こう))
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.