学校
school
HSK level
- Pinyin
- xuéxiào
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- HSK 1
- Strokes
- 18
- Register
- neutral
- Measure word
- 所 / 个
- In episodes
- 3
Stroke order for 学校
学校 is written with 18 strokes (学: 8, 校: 10). The animation replays automatically.
What does 学校 mean?
学校 (xuéxiào) is the Chinese word for 'school' — the institution, the building, and by extension the community of students and teachers.
It covers every level: primary school (小学), middle school (中学), high school (高中), university (大学), and language schools. Two notes for learners: first, the standard measure word is 所 (一所学校 'one school'), though casual speech often uses 个; using 所 in writing or formal speech sounds more polished.
Second, the verbs that pair with 学校 are slightly different from English — Chinese says 去学校 'go to school' for the action, 上学 'attend school' as a daily routine verb, and 在学校 'be at school' for location. Literally 'study + building / school,' 学校 first appeared in classical texts and survived intact into modern Mandarin.
Character by character
Memory hook: 学 (study) + 校 (school building) — the place where studying happens.
Hear 学校 in real episodes
学校 appears in 3 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
数学，是学校里学的东西。
Math is something you learn at school.
Former NFL Lineman John Urschel, Now an MIT Professor, Solves a 30-Year-Old Math Conjecture on Gaussian Elimination
他打了三年橄榄球，后来回学校学习数学。
He played American football for three years, and later went back to school to study maths.
Former NFL Player Proves a Maths Conjecture
在法国，很多学生，现在不去学校了。
In France, many students aren't going to school right now.
French High-School Students Walk Out Over Missing Teachers: 250,000 March, Thousands Arrested and 500 Schools Shut
Example sentences
我每天去学校。
Wǒ měitiān qù xuéxiào.
I go to school every day.
neutral
我们学校很大。
Wǒmen xuéxiào hěn dà.
Our school is very big.
spoken
学校里有很多学生。
Xuéxiào lǐ yǒu hěn duō xuésheng.
There are many students in the school.
neutral
他在一所大学校工作。
Tā zài yì suǒ dà xuéxiào gōngzuò.
He works at a big school.
neutral
Common phrases with 学校
Synonyms
校园 means 'campus' — the physical grounds of a school. 学校 is the institution itself. 校园里 'on campus' vs 学校里 'in/at the school.'
Don't confuse 学校 with
上学 is a verb meaning 'attend school / go to school (as a routine).' 学校 is the noun ('school'). 'My kid goes to school' uses 上学; 'my school is big' uses 学校.
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