学生
student
HSK level
- Pinyin
- xuésheng
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- HSK 1
- Strokes
- 13
- Register
- neutral
- Measure word
- 个 / 名
- In episodes
- 2
Stroke order for 学生
学生 is written with 13 strokes (学: 8, 生: 5). The animation replays automatically.
What does 学生 mean?
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.
Hear 学生 in real episodes
学生 appears in 2 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.
一个大学生说：匹克球，打一打，就会了。
A university student said: pickleball — play a little, and you can do it.
Pickleball Is Taking Off in China: 8 Million Regular Players and 1,000 Tournaments a Year
中午，别的学生去吃饭，刘欢去弹钢琴。
At noon, the other students went to eat, and Liu Huan went to play the piano.
Liu Huan, Who Sang the 2008 Beijing Olympics Theme 'You and Me,' Dies at 63
Example sentences
我是学生。
Wǒ shì xuésheng.
I am a student.
neutral
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.
neutral
学生们都在学中文。
Xuéshengmen dōu zài xué Zhōngwén.
The students are all studying Chinese.
neutral
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