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研究生

yán jiū shēng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word

研究生 (yán jiū shēng) means "graduate student". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 研究生 means

1. graduate student
2. postgraduate student
3. research student

The characters in 研究生

• 研yánto grind; study; research
• 究jiūafter all; to investigate; to study carefully
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 我想在研究生院注册。
  Wǒ xiǎng zài yánjiūshēngyuàn zhùcè.
  I want to enroll at graduate school.
• 他不是罗马大学的研究生吗?
  Tā bù shì Luómǎ dàxué de yánjiūshēng ma?
  Isn't he the graduate student of the University of Rome?
• 大学毕业以后我也想考研究生。
  Dàxué bìyè yǐhòu wǒ yě xiǎng kǎoyán jiū shēng.
  I'd like to be a graduate student through the test after graduation.
• 他研究生物学已经有差不多十年的时间了。
  Tā yánjiūshēng wù xué yǐjīng yǒu chàbuduō shí nián de shíjiān le.
  He has been engaged in the study of biology for nearly ten years.

Words starting with 研究生

• 研究生院yán jiū shēng yuàngraduate school

Where 研究生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Academic study & education (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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