HSK 2 · Places

教室 jiàoshì “classroom” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 教室 means

  1. classroom

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间教室 yì jiān jiàoshì

How to say 教室

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale教jiào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale室shì4th tone, falling

教室 in a sentence

  1. 我们的教室非常小。

    Wǒmen de jiàoshì fēicháng xiǎo.

    Our classroom is very small.

    Sentence #3378103 from Tatoeba

  2. 教室里没有人。

    Jiàoshì lǐ méiyǒu rén.

    There is no one in the classroom.

    Sentence #465918 from Tatoeba

  3. 学生们在教室里。

    Xuéshengmen zài jiàoshì lǐ.

    The students are in the classroom.

    Sentence #2778803 from Tatoeba

How 教室 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 教 (jiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
教jiàoto teach; to instruct
  • 孝filial piety · xiàoSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 孝 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiào.

The character 室 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
室shìroom
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 至arrive · zhìSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 至 (zhì) hints at the sound. Compare it with shì.

Memory aidA roof 宀 you arrive 至 under: a room.

How to write 教室

教 11 strokes · 室 9 strokes

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

Words related to 教室

Words with 教

教jiāo · teach教授jiàoshòu · professor教育jiàoyù · to educate教练jiàoliàn · instructor教训jiàoxun · a lesson (learnt the hard way)教材jiàocái · teaching material请教qǐngjiào · to ask for advice教养jiàoyǎng · upbringing宗教zōngjiào · religion

Words with 室

室shì · room办公室bàngōngshì · office卧室wòshì · bedroom

More words: Places & Directions

后面hòumiàn · back宾馆bīnguǎn · hotel房间fángjiān · room火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station公司gōngsī · company机场jīchǎng · airport路lù · road旁边pángbiān · side

FAQs

教室 (jiàoshì) means “classroom”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it jiàoshì: jiào with a 4th tone, then shì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 教室 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one classroom is 一间教室 (yì jiān jiàoshì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaoshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 教室 from the suggestions. Typing jiaoshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
教室 is an HSK 2 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.