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Chinese symbol for “classroom”

教室
jiào shì
classroom; 间 (jiān)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for classroom is 教室 (jiào shì), defined as: classroom; 间 (jiān).

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Characters and stroke order

教 jiào
school, education
radical 66 ⽁ · 11 strokes
室 shì
house, home; room, chamber
radical 40 ⼧ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “classroom”

WordPinyinMeaning
课室 (課室)kè shìclassroom

Related words

Other words that share a character with 教室.

WordPinyinMeaning
教育jiào yùto educate; to teach
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
宗教zōng jiàoreligion
教授jiāo shòuto teach (a subject)
教学 (教學)jiāo xuéto teach
办公室 (辦公室)bàn gōng shìoffice; business premises
实验室 (實驗室)shí yàn shìlaboratory; 间 (jiān)
工作室gōng zuò shìstudio; workshop

See also: Japanese symbol for “classroom”.

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.