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小学

xiǎo xué

HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 小學

小学 (xiǎo xué) means "primary school". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 小学 means

1. elementary school; primary school

The characters in 小学

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 学xuéto learn; to study; to imitate

Example sentences

• 我是小学生。
  I'm a pupil.
• 有两千小学生到校。
  Yǒu liǎng qiān xiǎoxuéshēng dào xiào.
  Two thousand pupils attend school.

Words starting with 小学

• 小学生xiǎo xué shēngprimary school student; schoolchild; (fig.) beginner
• 小学而大遗xiǎo xué ér dà yíto concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)

Words containing 小学

• 中小学zhōng xiǎo xuémiddle and elementary school
• 国民小学guó mín xiǎo xuéelementary school (Tw)
• 高级小学gāo jí xiǎo xuéadvanced class of primary school
• 初级小学chū jí xiǎo xuélower elementary school

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