HSK 6 · Education

旷课 kuàngkè “to skip class” in Chinese

Traditional 曠課

What 旷课 means

  1. to skip class
  2. to play truant
  3. to cut classes

How to say 旷课

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale旷kuàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale课kè4th tone, falling

旷课 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆总是旷课。

    Tāngmǔ zǒngshì kuàngkè.

    Tom is always skipping class.

    Sentence #2777942 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 旷课 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 旷 (kuàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
旷kuàngto neglect
  • 日sun · rì
  • 广shelter · guǎng
The character 课 (kè) with each of its parts in a different colour
课kèsubject
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 果fruit · guǒSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 果 (guǒ) hints at the sound. Compare it with kè.

How to write 旷课

旷 7 strokes · 课 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

旷课 (kuàngkè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 旷课 (kuàngkè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 旷课

Words with 课

上课shàngkè · to go to class下课xiàkè · to finish class课kè · class课本kèběn · textbook课文kèwén · text (of a lesson)课程kèchéng · course课题kètí · research topic

More words: Education & Learning

记性jìxing · memory (ability to remember)考古kǎogǔ · archaeology科目kēmù · (school) subject课题kètí · research topic母语mǔyǔ · mother tongue撇piě · left-falling stroke (丿)启蒙qǐméng · to enlighten示范shìfàn · to demonstrate

FAQs

旷课 (kuàngkè) means “to skip class” or “to play truant”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kuàngkè: kuàng with a 4th tone, then kè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 旷课 is written 曠課. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuangke with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 旷课 from the suggestions. Typing kuangke into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
旷课 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.