Chinese symbol for “university”
大学
dà xué
Traditional: 大學
university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for university is 大学 (dà xué), defined as: university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学习 (學習) | xué xí | to learn; to study |
See also: Japanese symbol for “university”.
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.