• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    How’d they get JS from shougakusei? Or wait, is that like “junior school” or something, to obscure its meaning further?

    • raman_klogius@ani.social
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      18 hours ago

      The abbreviation takes the form of XY where X is:

      • D for danshi/男子 (boys) or
      • J for joshi/女子 (girls)

      And Y is:

      • S for shougakusei/小学生 (elementary schooler) or
      • C for chuugakusei/中学生 (middle schooler) or
      • K for koukousei/高校生 (high schooler)