(zhōng xué) - secondary school in Mandarin
zhōngxuéTraditional: 中學
Translation
secondary school
Stroke order
中
学
Examples
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My sister teaches English at a secondary school.
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He's starting secondary school next year.
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This secondary school has more than a thousand students.
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Secondary school lessons are much harder than primary school ones.
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Our secondary school has a very big library.
中学 (zhōngxué) is secondary school, covering both lower and upper secondary. 中 (zhōng) means "middle" and 学 (xué) means "school", so it sits, quite literally, in the middle between 小学 (xiǎoxué), "primary school", and 大学 (dàxué), "university".
A secondary school student is a 中学生 (zhōngxuéshēng). Chinese secondary education is often split further into 初中 (chūzhōng), "junior secondary", and 高中 (gāozhōng), "senior secondary", but 中学 (zhōngxué) is the general word covering the whole stage, and the one used most in everyday conversation.
Like 小学 (xiǎoxué), it takes the measure word 所 (suǒ): 一所中学 (yì suǒ zhōngxué), "one secondary school".
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