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留学生

liú xué shēng

HSK 3.0 level 3 3-character word Traditional 留學生

留学生 (liú xué shēng) means "international student". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 留学生 means

1. student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student

The characters in 留学生

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 学xuéto learn; to study; to imitate
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 我是义大利留学生。
  I'm an exchange student from Italy.
• 这间宿舍住着两个美国留学生。
  Zhè jiān sùshè zhù zhe liǎng gè Měiguó liúxuéshēng.
  Two American students live in this dorm.
• 那天晚上，大学给留学生和中国的学习外语学生举行一个会议。
  Nàtiān wǎnshang, dàxué gěi liúxuéshēng hé Zhōngguó de xuéxí wàiyǔ xuésheng jǔxíng yī gè huìyì.
  That evening, the university held a meeting for foreign students and Chinese students studying foreign languages.
• 国华认识很多外国留学生， 有日本人， 韩国人， 法国人， 还有美国人。
  Guóhuā rènshi hěn duō wàiguó liúxuéshēng, yǒu Rìběnrén, Hánguórén, Fǎguórén, háiyǒu Měiguórén.
  Guohua knows many foreign students, there are Japanese, Koreans, French, as well as Americans.

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