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社会学

社会学

See also: 社會學

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 社會學.
(This term, 社会学, is the simplified form of 社會學.)
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Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
しゃ
Grade: 2
かい
Grade: 2
がく
Grade: 1
on'yomi

Compound of 社会 (shakai, society) + (gaku, study); coined by Masakazu Toyama as a calque of the French sociologie.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

社会学 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 社會學, hiragana しゃかいがく, romaji shakaigaku, historical hiragana しやくわいがく)

  1. sociology[6]

Descendants

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4000801112
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
  6. 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.