How to say it in Chinese

Classroom in Chinese

classroom · HSK 2

教室 jiào shì

  1. 教 jiāo to teach
  2. 室 shì room

Counted with 间: 一间教室 yì jiān jiàoshì

同学们都在教室里看书。 The students are all reading in the classroom.

Hear 教室 and see more sentences

Other ways to say classroom

More words with 教 or 室

How do you say classroom in Chinese?

Classroom in Chinese is 教室 (jiào shì). You can also say 课堂 (kè táng).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.