学 xué
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
学费
xuéfèi
tuition fee
Characters in this word
费 fèi
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 弗 not, negative 贝 sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 学费太贵了。 Xué fèi tài guì le. The tuition fee is too expensive.
- 我交了学费。 Wǒ jiāo le xué fèi. I paid the tuition fee.
- 学费明天交。 Xué fèi míng tiān jiāo. Pay the tuition fee tomorrow.
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