Student in Chinese
student · HSK 1
学生
- 学 to study
- 生 to give birth to
Counted with 个: 一个学生
他是这个学校的学生。 He is a student at this school.
Other ways to say student
More words with 学 or 生
How do you say student in Chinese?
Student in Chinese is 学生 (xué shēng). You can also say 学员 (xué yuán), 同学 (tóng 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.
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.