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高中

gāo zhōng

HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word

高中 (gāo zhōng) means "senior high school". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 高中 means

1. senior high school (abbr. for {高级中学|gāo jí zhōng xué})

Other readings

高中 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• gāo zhòngto pass brilliantly (used in congratulatory fashion)

The characters in 高中

• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during

Example sentences

• 你是高中生吗?
  Nǐ shì gāozhōngshēng ma?
  Are you a high school student?
• 她上女子高中。
  She goes to a girls' high school.
• 我是个高中生。
  I'm a high school student.
• 他们是高中生。
  They are high school students.
• 我被高中退学了。
  Wǒ bèi gāozhōng tuìxué le.
  I was kicked out of high school.
• 我高中时曾打网球
  Wǒ gāozhōng shí céng dǎ wǎngqiú
  I played tennis in high school.

Words starting with 高中

• 高中生gāo zhōng shēngsenior high school student
• 高中学生gāo zhōng xué shēngstudent of a senior high school

Words containing 高中

• 职业高中zhí yè gāo zhōngvocational high school (abbr. to 职高
• 普通高中pǔ tōng gāo zhōnggeneral academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools)

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