HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

放学 fàngxué “to finish school (for the day)” in Chinese

Traditional 放學

What 放学 means

  1. to finish school (for the day)
  2. to dismiss students at the end of the school day

How to say 放学

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale学xué2nd tone, rising

放学 in a sentence

  1. 什么时候放学？

    Shénme shíhou fàngxué?

    When does school finish?

    Sentence #1912307 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他一放学就回宿舍了。

    Tā yí fàngxué jiù huí sùshè le.

    He went back to the dorm as soon as classes finished.

    Sentence #2367577 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你放学以后干什么？

    Nǐ fàngxué yǐhòu gàn shénme?

    What do you do after school?

    Sentence #427648 from Tatoeba

How 放学 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 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 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 放学

放 8 strokes · 学 8 strokes

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

Words related to 放学

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday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 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大学生dàxuéshēng · university student

More words: School & Work

开会kāihuì · to have a meeting难题nántí · difficult problem放假fàngjià · to have a holiday初中chūzhōng · junior high school画家huàjiā · painter笔记bǐjì · notes休假xiūjià · to take leave班级bānjí · class (of students)

FAQs

放学 (fàngxué) means “to finish school (for the day)” or “to dismiss students at the end of the school day”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it fàngxué: fàng 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, 放学 is written 放學. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangxue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放学 from the suggestions. Typing fangxue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放学 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.