College entrance exam in Chinese
college entrance exam (in China) (short for 高等学校招生考试) · HSK 4
高考
- 高 high
- 考 to take an exam
他明年就要参加高考了。 He will take the college entrance exam next year.
More words with 高 or 考
How do you say college entrance exam in Chinese?
College entrance exam in Chinese is 高考 (gāo kǎo).
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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