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College student in Chinese

college student · HSK 1

大学生 dà xué shēng

  1. 大 dà big
  2. 学 xué to study
  3. 生 shēng to give birth to

Counted with 个: 一个大学生 yí gè dàxuéshēng

我哥哥是大学生。 My older brother is a college student.

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How do you say college student in Chinese?

College student in Chinese is 大学生 (dà xué shēng).

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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