HSK 3.0 Level 1 · School

上学 shàngxué “to go to school” in Chinese

Traditional 上學

What 上学 means

  1. to go to school
  2. to attend school

How to say 上学

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale上shàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale学xué2nd tone, rising

上学 in a sentence

  1. 妈妈每天叫我起床上学。

    Māma měitiān jiào wǒ qǐchuáng shàngxué.

    Mum wakes me up for school every day.

    Sentence #11837496 from Tatoeba

  2. 他昨天没来上学。

    Tā zuótiān méi lái shàngxué.

    He didn’t come to school yesterday.

    Sentence #346832 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不喜欢上学。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan shàngxué.

    I don’t like going to school.

    Sentence #7773124 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 上学 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 上 (shàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
上shàngup; upper; above; previous
  • ⺊divination form of 卜 · bǔ
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA short stroke above the line: up, on top.

The character 学 (xué) with each of its parts in a different colour
学xuéto learn
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 子child · zǐ

Memory aidA roof 冖 over a child 子 at study.

How to write 上学

上 3 strokes · 学 8 strokes

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

Words related to 上学

Words with 上

上shàng · up上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)上课shàngkè · to go to class早上zǎoshang · morning晚上wǎnshang · evening上班shàngbān · to go to work上面shàngmiàn · above路上lùshang · on the road上来shànglái · to come up上去shàngqù · to go up

Words with 学

学xué · to learn学生xuésheng · student同学tóngxué · classmate学校xuéxiào · school学习xuéxí · to study大学dàxué · university小学xiǎoxué · elementary school中学zhōngxué · middle school大学生dàxuéshēng · university student小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student

More words: School & Work

大学生dàxuéshēng · university student读书dúshū · to read a book汉字hànzì · Chinese character上课shàngkè · to go to class下班xiàbān · to finish work下课xiàkè · to finish class小学xiǎoxué · elementary school小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student

FAQs

上学 (shàngxué) means “to go to school” or “to attend school”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it shàngxué: shàng with a 4th tone, then xué with a 2nd 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, 上学 is written 上學. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shangxue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 上学 from the suggestions. Typing shangxue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
上学 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older 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.