Chinese symbol for “student”
学生
xué sheng
Traditional: 學生
student; schoolchild
The closest CC-CEDICT match for student is 学生 (xué sheng), defined as: student; schoolchild.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “student”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学员 (學員) | xué yuán | student; member of an institution of learning |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur |
| 学子 (學子) | xué zǐ | (literary) student; scholar |
| 门生 (門生) | mén shēng | disciple; student (of a famous master) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 学生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学习 (學習) | xué xí | to learn; to study |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
| 学院 (學院) | xué yuàn | college; educational institute |
| 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") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 生产 (生產) | shēng chǎn | to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child |
See also: Japanese symbol for “student”.
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.