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Fellow student in Chinese

fellow student · HSK 1

同学 tóng xué

  1. 同 tóng same
  2. 学 xué to study

Counted with 个: 一个同学 yí gè tóngxué

他是我的大学同学。 He is my college classmate.

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How do you say fellow student in Chinese?

Fellow student in Chinese is 同学 (tóng xué).

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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