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Go to school in Chinese

to go to school · HSK 1

上学 shàng xué

  1. 上 shàng up
  2. 学 xué to study

孩子每天七点去上学。 The child goes to school at seven every day.

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How do you say go to school in Chinese?

Go to school in Chinese is 上学 (shàng 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.

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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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