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This research aims to analyze quantitative and qualitative developmental aspects of adjective expressions according to grades and genders of school-aged children. We collected descriptive texts of 72 typically developing children through a writing test on a topic: My Friend. Then, we analyzed frequencies and semantic categories of adjectives embedded in their texts. For frequency analysis, we dealt with not only adjective variables(NTA, NDA), but also text length(NTW), and numbers of nouns(NTN) and verbs(NTV). For semantic categories, we analyzed the distribution of adjective meanings according to grades and genders after matching meanings of adjectives to conceptual nodes of CoreNet. As a result, all of variables were significantly increased according to grades except ratio of verbs. In gender comparison, girls generally used adjectives more than boys. For semantic categories of adjectives, the higher grade is, the more objective adjectives were used. These findings implicate that semantic categories and their characteristics need to be considered for evaluating and improving use abilities of adjectives in writing of school-aged children.