HSK 3.0 Level 1 · School

大学生 dàxuéshēng “university student” in Chinese

Traditional 大學生

What 大学生 means

  1. university student
  2. college student

How to say 大学生

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale大dà4th 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
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale生shēng1st tone, high and level

大学生 in a sentence

  1. 我是个大学生。

    Wǒ shì ge dàxuéshēng.

    I’m a university student.

    Sentence #2031433 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你是大学生吗？

    Nǐ shì dàxuéshēng ma?

    Are you a university student?

    Sentence #475871 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她们都是大学生。

    Tāmen dōu shì dàxuéshēng.

    They’re all university students.

    Sentence #7803200 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 大学生 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 大 (dà) with each of its parts in a different colour
大dàbig; large; great
  • 一one · yī
  • 人person · rén

Memory aidA person standing with arms stretched wide: big.

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.

The character 生 (shēng) drawn as one shape
生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce

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

Memory aidA shoot growing up out of the soil 土: to grow, to be born.

How to write 大学生

大 3 strokes · 学 8 strokes · 生 5 strokes

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

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

Words related to 大学生

Words with 大

大dà · big大学dàxué · university大家dàjiā · everyone大人dàren · adult大衣dàyī · overcoat大小dàxiǎo · size大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda大夫dàifu · doctor大概dàgài · roughly大约dàyuē · approximately

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上学shàngxué · to go to school小学xiǎoxué · elementary school中学zhōngxué · middle school小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student

Words with 生

医生yīshēng · doctor学生xuésheng · student先生xiānsheng · mr小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student中学生zhōngxuéshēng · middle-school student生日shēngrì · birthday生病shēngbìng · to get sick生气shēngqì · angry女生nǚshēng · female student男生nánshēng · male student

More words: School & Work

大学dàxué · university读书dúshū · to read a book汉字hànzì · Chinese character上课shàngkè · to go to class上学shàngxué · to go to school字典zìdiǎn · dictionary (of characters)留学生liúxuéshēng · international student课文kèwén · text (of a lesson)

FAQs

大学生 (dàxuéshēng) means “university student” or “college student”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it dàxuéshēng: dà with a 4th tone, then xué with a 2nd tone, then shēng with a 1st 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, 大学生 is written 大學生. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daxuesheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 大学生 from the suggestions. Typing daxuesheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
大学生 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.