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高考

gāo kǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

高考 (gāo kǎo) means "college entrance exam". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 高考 means

1. college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for {普通高等学校招生全国统一考试|Pǔ tōng Gāo děng Xué xiào Zhāo shēng Quán guó Tǒng yī Kǎo shì})
2. Taiwanentrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公务人员高等考试)

The characters in 高考

• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 考kǎoto beat; to hit; variant of 考

Words starting with 高考

• 高考移民gāo kǎo yí mínstudents who relocate to another region of China in order to gain an advantage on the…

Where 高考 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gǎng–gē (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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