Zhè jiān sùshè zhù zhe liǎng ge Měiguó liúxuéshēng.
Two American international students live in this dorm room.
Sentence #1567770 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 留学生 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.
留liúto leave
卯part of the character
田field · tián
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.
生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce
生 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA shoot growing up out of the soil 土: to grow, to be born.
How to write 留学生
留 10 strokes · 学 8 strokes · 生 5 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 留学生 (liúxuéshēng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
留学生 (liúxuéshēng) means “international student” or “student studying abroad”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it liúxuéshēng: liú with a 2nd tone, then xué with a 2nd tone, then shēng with a 1st 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, 留学生 is written 留學生. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liuxuesheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 留学生 from the suggestions. Typing liuxuesheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
留学生 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.
留liú2nd tone, rising
生shēng1st tone, high and level
