College in Chinese
college · HSK 1
大学
- 大 big
- 学 to study
Counted with 所: 一所大学
她在上海上大学。 She goes to university in Shanghai.
Other ways to say college
More words with 大 or 学
How do you say college in Chinese?
College in Chinese is 大学 (dà xué). You can also say 学院 (xué yuàn).
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.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.