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Mythic Mandarin

同学 (tóng xué): meaning and stroke order

同学 (tóng xué) means to study at the same school, fellow student, classmate, CL:位个.

同学

Simplified
同学
Traditional
同學
Pinyin
tóng xué

Stroke order of 同学

同

  • tóng like; same
  • tòng used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • tòng used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 衕

Stroke by stroke

学

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 同学

  1. tóng xué Traditional 同學
    • to study at the same school
    • fellow student
    • classmate
    • CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

同
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · built from 冂 and 𠮛
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.

同学 in our stories

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  • 同学说：“你好！我叫李明。”

    tóngxué shuō nǐ hǎo wǒ jiào Lǐ Míng

    A classmate says, "Hi! My name is Li Ming."

    From the story A new friend HSK 1

  • 杨帆要给同学们做一张介绍学校的海报。

    Yáng Fān yào gěi tóngxué men zuò yì zhāng jièshào xuéxiào de hǎibào

    Yang Fan has to make a poster introducing the school for his classmates.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

  • 很多同学说自己听到过，可是谁也不敢进去看。

    hěn duō tóngxué shuō zìjǐ tīngdào guò kěshì shéi yě bù gǎn jìnqu kàn

    Many students said they had heard it, but nobody dared to go in and look.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

Stories using 同学

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).