学 xué
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
学院
xuéyuàn
college, institute
Characters in this word
院 yuàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 完 to complete, to finish, to settle
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他在那个学院学习。 Tā zài nàge xuéyuàn xuéxí. He studies at that college.
- 我们的学院很新。 Wǒmen de xuéyuàn hěn xīn. Our college is very new.
- 这个学院有多少学生？ Zhè ge xuéyuàn yǒu duōshao xuéshēng? How many students does this college have?
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
- 学校 xuéxiào school