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Mythic Mandarin

小学 (xiǎo xué): meaning and stroke order

小学 (xiǎo xué) means elementary school; primary school.

小学

Simplified
小学
Traditional
小學
Pinyin
xiǎo xué

Stroke order of 小学

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

学

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 小学

  1. xiǎo xué Traditional 小學
    • elementary school; primary school

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 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.

小学 in our stories

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  • 袁媛和沈佳从小学起就是最好的朋友，几乎每天都在一起。

    Yuán Yuán hé Shěn Jiā cóng xiǎoxué qǐ jiùshì zuì hǎo de péngyou jīhū měitiān dōu zài yìqǐ

    Yuan Yuan and Shen Jia had been best friends since primary school and spent nearly every day together.

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

  • 大学三年级的暑假，贺敏报名去云南的一个山村小学做志愿者，教孩子们英语。

    dàxué sān niánjí de shǔjià Hè Mǐn bàomíng qù Yúnnán de yí gè shāncūn xiǎoxué zuò zhìyuànzhě jiāo háizimen Yīngyǔ

    In the summer holidays after her third year at university, He Min signed up as a volunteer at a mountain village school in Yunnan, teaching the children English.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

Stories using 小学

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).