HSK 4 · Verbs

放暑假 fàngshǔjià “to be on summer holidays” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 放暑假 means

  1. to be on summer holidays
  2. to be on summer holiday

How to say 放暑假

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale暑shǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale假jià4th tone, falling

放暑假 in a sentence

  1. 你什么时候放暑假？

    Nǐ shénme shíhou fàngshǔjià?

    When do your summer holidays start?

    Sentence #1529536 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 学校很快就要放暑假了。

    Xuéxiào hěn kuài jiùyào fàngshǔjià le.

    School will break up for the summer holidays soon.

    Sentence #8685598 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 离放暑假还有五天。

    Lí fàngshǔjià hái yǒu wǔ tiān.

    There are five days to go until the summer holidays.

    Sentence #1923922 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 放暑假 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 暑 (shǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
暑shǔheat
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 者that which · zhěSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 者 (zhě) hints at the sound. Compare it with shǔ.

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 放暑假

放 8 strokes · 暑 12 strokes · 假 11 strokes

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

Words related to 放暑假

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放松fàngsōng · to relax放弃fàngqì · to renounce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放假fàngjià · to have a holiday休假xiūjià · to take leave假jiǎ · false寒假hánjià · winter holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if虚假xūjiǎ · false

More words: Common Verbs

发生fāshēng · to happen发展fāzhǎn · development翻译fānyì · to translate放弃fàngqì · to renounce符合fúhé · in keeping with负责fùzé · to be in charge of复印fùyìn · to photocopy改变gǎibiàn · to change

FAQs

放暑假 (fàngshǔjià) means “to be on summer holidays” or “to be on summer holiday”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fàngshǔjià: fàng with a 4th tone, then shǔ with a 3rd 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. 放暑假 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangshujia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放暑假 from the suggestions. Typing fangshujia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放暑假 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.