HSK 4 · Education

毕业 bìyè “graduation” in Chinese

Traditional 畢業

What 毕业 means

  1. graduation
  2. to graduate
  3. to finish school

How to say 毕业

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale毕bì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling

毕业 in a sentence

  1. 我毕业快两年了。

    Wǒ bìyè kuài liǎng nián le.

    It’s been almost two years since I graduated.

    Sentence #3378296 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 您是从哪个学校毕业的？

    Nín shì cóng nǎge xuéxiào bìyè de?

    Which school did you graduate from?

    Sentence #805541 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她十八岁就大学毕业了。

    Tā shíbā suì jiù dàxué bìyè le.

    She was only 18 when she graduated from university.

    Sentence #838499 from Tatoeba

How 毕业 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 毕 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
毕bìthe whole of
  • 比compare · bǐSound part
  • 十ten · shíMeaning part

十 hints at the meaning (ten); 比 (bǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with bì.

The character 业 (yè) drawn as one shape
业yèline of business

业 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 毕业

毕 6 strokes · 业 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 毕业

Words with 毕

毕竟bìjìng · after all完毕wánbì · to finish

Words with 业

作业zuòyè · school assignment专业zhuānyè · major (at university)职业zhíyè · occupation业余yèyú · spare-time工业gōngyè · industry农业nóngyè · agriculture企业qǐyè · company商业shāngyè · business失业shīyè · unemployment行业hángyè · trade

More words: School, Work & Culture

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FAQs

毕业 (bìyè) means “graduation” or “to graduate”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it bìyè: bì with a 4th tone, then yè 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, 毕业 is written 畢業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type biye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 毕业 from the suggestions. Typing biye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
毕业 is an HSK 4 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.