school
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学校 is written with 18 strokes (学: 8, 校: 10). The animation replays automatically.
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.
学校 appears in 3 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
我每天去学校。
Wǒ měitiān qù xuéxiào.
I go to school every day.
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我们学校很大。
Wǒmen xuéxiào hěn dà.
Our school is very big.
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学校里有很多学生。
Xuéxiào lǐ yǒu hěn duō xuésheng.
There are many students in the school.
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他在一所大学校工作。
Tā zài yì suǒ dà xuéxiào gōngzuò.
He works at a big school.
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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.'
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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