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教授 is an exact match with one form of the following word:
教授
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Reading : きょうじゅ   
1. professor
2. teaching; instruction
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Kanshudo usefulness level: 2 (among the 1,500 most useful words in Japanese)
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教授 is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 5,000 (about 200,000,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N3 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 699 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 418
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
• This form is used as an example of an official Joyo kanji reading
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Example sentences:
ごとう
後藤
きょうじゅ
教授
だいがくいん
大学院
けんきゅう
研究
しどう
指導
してくださった

Professor Goto directed my graduate work.
がくせい
学生
たち
きょうじゅ
教授
ちょうさ
調査
じょしゅ
助手
つと
めた

The students assisted the professor in the investigation.
きょうじゅ
教授
きまつ
期末
しけん
試験
いっしゅうかん
一週間
えんき
延期
する
やくそく
約束
した

Our professor promised to hold off on the final exam for another week.
きょうじゅ
BOOST
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 142,000 (about 631,000 results)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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キョウ   おしえる to teach   おそわる to be taught   
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コウ    filial piety   
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old
シ   ス   こ child   
ぼく strike   
ジュ   さずける to teach, to grant   さずかる be granted, to be taught   
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hand
ジュ   うける to receive, to accept   うかる to pass (an exam)    
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また again   
cover; covered   
つめ claw; fingernail   
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