HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

放假 fàngjià “to have a holiday” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 放假 means

  1. to have a holiday
  2. to be on a break
  3. to have a holiday or holiday

How to say 放假

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale放fàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale假jià4th tone, falling

放假 in a sentence

  1. 现在学生在放假。

    Xiànzài xuésheng zài fàngjià.

    The students are on holiday at the moment.

    Sentence #343741 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你放假的时候做了什么？

    Nǐ fàngjià de shíhou zuò le shénme?

    What did you do during the holidays?

    Sentence #718388 from Tatoeba

  3. 今天是我们放假最后一天。

    Jīntiān shì wǒmen fàngjià zuìhòu yì tiān.

    Today is the last day of our holidays.

    Sentence #1066624 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 放假 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 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

The character 假 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
假jiàholiday
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 叚false

Memory aidPerson 亻 with 叚 (jiǎ) for the sound: false, fake. Read jià, it means a holiday.

How to write 放假

放 8 strokes · 假 11 strokes

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

Words related to 放假

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)播放bōfàng · to broadcast放大fàngdà · to enlarge解放jiěfàng · to liberate

Words with 假

请假qǐngjià · to ask for time off假期jiàqī · holiday休假xiūjià · to take leave假jiǎ · false寒假hánjià · winter holidays放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if虚假xūjiǎ · false

More words: School & Work

开学kāixué · to start a new school term校园xiàoyuán · campus开会kāihuì · to have a meeting难题nántí · difficult problem初中chūzhōng · junior high school放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)画家huàjiā · painter笔记bǐjì · notes

FAQs

放假 (fàngjià) means “to have a holiday” or “to be on a break”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it fàngjià: fàng with a 4th tone, then jià with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 放假 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangjia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放假 from the suggestions. Typing fangjia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放假 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 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.