How to say it in Chinese

Postgraduate in Chinese

postgraduate · HSK 4

研究生 yán jiū shēng

  1. 研 yán to research
  2. 究 jiū to study
  3. 生 shēng to give birth to

Counted with 名: 一名研究生 yì míng yánjiūshēng

我姐姐今年考上了研究生。 My older sister got into graduate school this year.

Hear 研究生 and see more sentences

More words with 研 or 究 or 生

How do you say postgraduate in Chinese?

Postgraduate in Chinese is 研究生 (yán jiū 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.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.