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同学

tóng xué

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 同學 Measure word 位、个

同学 (tóng xué) means "classmate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 同学 means

1. to study at the same school
2. fellow student
3. classmate

The characters in 同学

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 学xuéto learn; to study; to imitate

Example sentences

• 我们是同学。
  We're classmates.
• 他被同学欺负。
  He was made fun of by his classmates.
• 他是我的同学。
  He is my classmate.
• 她和我是同学。
  She and I are classmates.
• 她是我的同学。
  She's my classmate.
• 谁和谁是同学？
  Who and who are classmates?

Where 同学 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Family and People (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tóng xué correctly.
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