| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 塾 | じゅく | coaching school, cramming school, juku |
| 塾長 | じゅくちょう | principal of a private school |
| 義塾 | ぎじゅく | private school |
| 塾生 | じゅくせい | private-school student |
| 私塾 | しじゅく | private school (in house) |
| 入塾 | にゅうじゅく | entering a private school |
| 学習塾 | がくしゅうじゅく | private night-school, tutoring school (math, English, etc.) |
| 家塾 | かじゅく | (historical) government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home |
| 英語塾 | えいごじゅく | private school for the study of English |
| 進学塾 | しんがくじゅく | cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education) |