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Graduate in Chinese

to graduate · HSK 4

毕业 bì yè

  1. 毕 bì to finish
  2. 业 yè line of business

他去年大学毕业了。 He graduated from university last year.

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How do you say graduate in Chinese?

Graduate in Chinese is 毕业 (bì yè). You can also say 毕业生 (bì yè 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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