Etymology

juku

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Today it means: A private Japanese school offering lessons outside of regular school time. Full definition →

Japanese 塾
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from塾“cram school”
  2. English todayjuku

From Japanese 塾 (juku, “cram school”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.