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学校xué xiào
school
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 学校 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 學校 | ||
| 學校 | xuéxiào | |
| 1. n. school | ||
| 上 不 了liǎo 好 學校 - to be unable to get into a good school | ||
| 去 學校 當 實習 老師 - to do teaching work experience at a school | ||
| 他 在 家 說 方言，在 學校 說 普通話。 - He speaks the local dialect at home and Standard Mandarin at school. | ||
| 我 喺 一 間 學校haau6 做嘢。 - I work at a school. | ||
| 他 的 兒子zi 在 一 所 私立.學校 就學。 - His son studies in a private school. | ||
| 去 學校 怎樣 行？ - tr=Kó̤ hŏk-hâu cuōng-iông giàng?, How can I go to the school?, MD, a=Cdo_how_to_go_to_school.ogg | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| school | ||
| 1. 學校 | ||
| 2. 一群(魚) | ||
| 3. 教育 | ||
| Components | ||
| 学 | ||
| 1. Variant of 學 | ||
| 2. Variant of 孛 | ||
| 孛 | bó | |
| 1. Variant of 勃 | ||
| 2. Variant of 渤 | ||
| 3. Variant of 脖 | ||
| 4. Variant of 餑 | ||
| 學 | xué, xiáo | |
| 1. to learn; to study | ||
| 學習 - to study; to learn | ||
| 我 打算 學 攝影。 - I plan to learn photography. | ||
| 我 父母親 希望 我 學 醫，但是 我 不 願意。 - My parents hoped I would study medicine, but I didn't want to. | ||
| 老師 叫 極 佢 都 唔 肯 學 講 唔該。 - He refuses to learn to say thank you, even though his teacher asked him many times. | ||
| 2. to imitate; to copy; to mimic | ||
| 鸚鵡 學 人 語。 - Parrots imitate human speech. | ||
| 我 妹妹 什麼 都 學 我。 - My little sister likes to copy everything I do. | ||
| 學 人哋 用 叉 食飯 - imitate others and use a fork to eat | ||
| 3. school | ||
| 上學 - to go to school | ||
| 小學 - primary school | ||
| 學費 - school fees | ||
| 4. learning; knowledge | ||
| 求學 - to seek knowledge | ||
| 才疏學淺 - to be of humble talent and shallow learning | ||
| 5. theory; doctrine | ||
| 儒學 - Confucianism | ||
| 6. subject; branch of learning; science; -ology | ||
| 化學 - chemistry | ||
| 生物學 - biology | ||
| 哲學 - philosophy | ||
| 7. (obsolete) Alternative form of 斆 (to teach; to instruct; to train) | ||
| 8. (zh-used, 學鳩) | ||
| 校 | xiào | |
| 1. school; college; university | ||
| 軍校 - military school | ||
| 2. (military) field officer | ||
| 3. (historical) horsekeeper official | ||
| 4. to proofread; to check; to compare | ||
| 5. (printing) proof | ||
| 6. (Cantonese) to adjust | ||
| 校gaau3 返 啱 隻 錶 - to adjust a watch to the correct time | ||
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Pronunciation
xué xiào
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