HSK 3.0 Level 2 · School

开学 kāixué “to start a new school term” in Chinese

Traditional 開學

What 开学 means

  1. to start a new school term
  2. (of a student) to start school
  3. (of a semester) to begin
  4. the start of a new term

How to say 开学

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale学xué2nd tone, rising

开学 in a sentence

  1. 明天就开学了。

    Míngtiān jiù kāixué le.

    School begins tomorrow.

    Sentence #688808 from Tatoeba

  2. 下周一开学。

    Xià Zhōuyī kāixué.

    School starts next Monday.

    Sentence #431555 from Tatoeba

  3. 大学四月开学。

    Dàxué Sìyuè kāixué.

    University starts in April.

    Sentence #12686379 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 开学 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 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

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 开学

开 4 strokes · 学 8 strokes

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

Words related to 开学

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)开心kāixīn · to feel happy

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

中学生zhōngxuéshēng · middle-school student本子běnzi · book词cí · word高中gāozhōng · senior high school校园xiàoyuán · campus开会kāihuì · to have a meeting难题nántí · difficult problem放假fàngjià · to have a holiday

FAQs

开学 (kāixué) means “to start a new school term” or “(of a student) to start school”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it kāixué: kāi with a 1st 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, 开学 is written 開學. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaixue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开学 from the suggestions. Typing kaixue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开学 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 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.