How to say it in Chinese

School in Chinese

school · HSK 1

学校 xué xiào

  1. 学 xué to study
  2. 校 xiào school

Counted with 所: 一所学校 yì suǒ xuéxiào

我们学校很大。 Our school is very big.

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Other ways to say school

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How do you say school in Chinese?

School in Chinese is 学校 (xué xiào). You can also say 学 (xué), 派 (pài).

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