学

to study, learn

No. 41 most used

How it's built

• ⺍sparks
• 冖cover
• 子child

A way to remember it

A child (子) under a roof (冖), with ideas sparking above (⺍).

Words

• 学校

  xué xiào

  school; CL:所
• 学生

  xué sheng

  student; schoolchild
• 大学

  dà xué

  university; college; CL:所
• 学习

  xué xí

  to learn; to study
• 同学

  tóng xué

  to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate
• 学会

  xué huì

  to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association

Sentences

• 一共有十多个学生。

  yí gòng yǒu shí duō gè xué sheng

  There are about ten to twenty students in total.
• 他在一所中学工作。

  tā zài yì suǒ zhōng xué gōng zuò

  He works in a secondary school.
• 他是一个生物学家。

  tā shì yí ge shēng wù xué jiā

  He is a biologist.
• 他正在学怎么开车。

  tā zhèng zài xué zěn me kāi chē

  He is learning how to drive a car.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.