Chinese symbol for “beginner”
小学生
xiǎo xué shēng
Traditional: 小學生
primary school student; schoolchild; 个 (gè),名 (míng); (fig.) beginner
The closest CC-CEDICT match for beginner is 小学生 (xiǎo xué shēng), defined as: primary school student; schoolchild; 个 (gè),名 (míng); (fig.) beginner.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “beginner”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小学生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
See also: Japanese symbol for “beginner”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.