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Mythic Mandarin

学堂 (xué táng): meaning and stroke order

学堂 (xué táng) means college, school (old).

学堂

Simplified
学堂
Traditional
學堂
Pinyin
xué táng

Stroke order of 学堂

学

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

Stroke by stroke

堂

  • táng (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 学堂

  1. xué táng Traditional 學堂
    • college
    • school (old)

Radicals of the characters

学
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 8 strokes
堂
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 11 strokes · 𫩠 on top, 土 below

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.

学堂 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

  • 天亮以后，他过了河。他没有再去长安，而是在家乡办了一所小学堂，教村里的孩子读书。

    tiān liàng yǐhòu tā guò le hé tā méiyǒu zài qù Cháng'ān érshì zài jiāxiāng bàn le yì suǒ xiǎo xuétáng jiāo cūnlǐ de háizi dúshū

    At daybreak he crossed the river. He never went back to Chang'an; instead he opened a small school in his home village and taught the village children to read.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 学堂

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).