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Semester in Chinese

semester · HSK 3

学期 xué qī

  1. 学 xué to study
  2. 期 qī period

Counted with 个: 一个学期 yí gè xuéqī

这个学期我有五门课。 I have five classes this semester.

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How do you say semester in Chinese?

Semester in Chinese is 学期 (xué qī).

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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