苦学生 – vocab dash

苦く学がく生せい

Meanings

Noun

1. self-supporting student; working student

Kanji used

Pitch accent

くがくせい

Composed of

working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances

Noun

life; living; I; me; myself; student

Noun

Examples2

あおいは、苦く学がく生せいだから、そんな高こう級きゅうなもの、持もてないです。

I'm a self-supporting student so I can't have that sort of high class thing.

バイトで学がく費ひを稼かせぎながら大だい学がくに通かよってる。まあ苦く学がく生せいってとこかな。

I pay my university fees to go to university by part-time work. Well, I'm a 'working student' I suppose.