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Summer vacation in Chinese

summer vacation · HSK 4

暑假 shǔ jià

  1. 暑 shǔ heat
  2. 假 jiǎ fake

Counted with 个: 一个暑假 yí gè shǔjià

暑假我想去海边玩。 I want to go to the seaside during summer vacation.

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How do you say summer vacation in Chinese?

Summer vacation in Chinese is 暑假 (shǔ jià).

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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