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开学

kāi xué

HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 開學

开学 (kāi xué) means "school starts; term begins". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 开学 means

1. (of a student) to start school
2. (of a semester) to begin
3. oldto found a school
4. the start of a new term

The characters in 开学

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 学xuéto learn; to study; to imitate

Example sentences

• 下周一开学。
  School starts next Monday.
• 明天就开学了。
  Míngtiān jiù kāixué le.
  School begins tomorrow.
• 学校下周开学。
  School starts next week.
• 大学四月开学。
  University starts in April.

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