学 xué
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
学校
xuéxiào
school
Characters in this word
校 xiào
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 木 tree 交 to connect
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我的学校很大。 Wǒ de xuéxiào hěn dà. My school is very big.
- 学校里有学生。 Xuéxiào lǐ yǒu xuéshēng. There are students at the school.
- 他去学校了。 Tā qù xuéxiào le. He went to school.
Related words
- 学生 xuésheng student
- 大学 dàxué university
- 大学生 dàxuéshēng university student
- 放学 fàngxué to finish classes (for the day)
- 教学楼 jiàoxuélóu classroom building
- 上学 shàngxué to go to school
- 同学 tóngxué classmate
- 小学 xiǎoxué primary school
- 小学生 xiǎoxuéshēng primary school student
- 学 xué to learn, to study
- 学习 xuéxí to study, to learn
- 学院 xuéyuàn college, institute