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The character 塾, in its traditional form, consists of the phonetic component 孰 above the radical 土 (earth). Its earliest meaning was not directly related to education, but instead referred to a side hall or private wing within a larger residential compound. This architectural term later specialized to denote a private school, as such institutions were typically conducted within a side room or a dedicated building on a teacher's residential property. The meaning narrowed further to refer specifically to these private, often family-run, tutorial schools, which became a common institution for classical education, solidifying its modern semantic association with a place of learning.
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他在塾裡讀書。
我每天去塾上課。
這個塾的老師很嚴格。
媽媽送我去塾學習數學。
為了考上好大學，他參加了補習塾。
雖然塾的學費很貴，但效果很好。
在日本的塾文化中，學生壓力很大。
經過在塾的密集培訓，他的成績顯著提高。