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(xué xiào) - school in Mandarin

xuéxiào

Traditional: 學校

Line drawing of 学校
Coloured illustration of 学校
HSK 2
#500 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

school

Word origin

A compound of 学 (xué, 'to learn, study') and 校 (xiào, 'school'), literally 'a place for learning'. 校 is a phono-semantic compound of 木 (mù, 'wood') giving the sense and 交 (jiāo) giving the sound, originally meaning a wooden enclosure.

Origin
compound
Root
学 (xué, 'to learn') + 校 (xiào, 'school'); 校 = 木 (wood) + 交 (jiāo, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 学

Stroke order for 校

Examples

qiān

Our school has a thousand students.

My home is very close to the school.

School finishes at three in the afternoon.

The school is at the end of the street.

I walk to school every day.

学校 (xué xiào) - school.

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