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学生 is written with 13 strokes (学: 8, 生: 5). The animation replays automatically.
学生 (xuésheng) is the Chinese word for 'student' — anyone who studies, from elementary school through graduate school.
It pairs naturally with 老师 (lǎoshī, 'teacher') as the foundational classroom duo every learner meets. Note the pronunciation: the second syllable 生 reduces to a neutral tone in this compound (xuésheng, not xuéshēng), even though 生 is normally first tone on its own. Two things English speakers should note: first, 学生 covers all levels — to be specific, add a prefix: 小学生 (xiǎoxuéshēng, elementary student), 中学生 (zhōngxuéshēng, secondary student), 大学生 (dàxuéshēng, university student), 研究生 (yánjiūshēng, grad student); second, when introducing yourself, the natural sentence is 我是学生 (Wǒ shì xuésheng), not 我学生 — the verb 是 ('to be') is required.
Character by character
Memory hook: 'Learning person' — anyone whose job is to learn is a 学生.
学生 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
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Wǒ shì xuésheng.
I am a student.
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这个学生很聪明。
Zhège xuésheng hěn cōngming.
This student is very smart.
spoken
他有很多学生。
Tā yǒu hěn duō xuésheng.
He has many students.
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学生们都在学中文。
Xuéshengmen dōu zài xué Zhōngwén.
The students are all studying Chinese.
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