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Mythic Mandarin

求学 (qiú xué): meaning and stroke order

求学 (qiú xué) means to pursue one's studies; to attend school, to seek knowledge.

求学

Simplified
求学
Traditional
求學
Pinyin
qiú xué

Stroke order of 求学

求

  • qiú to seek; to look for
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

学

  • xué to learn; to study
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 學

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 求学

  1. qiú xué Traditional 求學
    • to pursue one's studies; to attend school
    • to seek knowledge

Radicals of the characters

求
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes
学
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

求学 in our stories

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  • 可是那时候，女孩子是不能进学堂的。她想了一个办法：打扮成男的，去杭州求学。

    kěshì nà shíhou nǚháizi shì bù néng jìn xuétáng de tā xiǎng le yí gè bànfǎ dǎban chéng nán de qù Hángzhōu qiúxué

    But in those days girls could not attend school. She came up with a plan: to dress as a man and go to Hangzhou to study.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 求学

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).