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升学 (shēng xué) — to move up to the next level of schooling, to enter a higher school

Definition

升学 means continuing on to the next stage of school (e.g. high school, university). It focuses on advancing between levels, unlike 入学 which is entering school for the first time.

verb
to move up to the next level of schooling, to enter a higher school
Easily confused

Examples

  • 升学。
    Hěn duō xué shēng wèi le shēng xué ér nǔ lì fù xí.
    Many students study hard in order to move up to the next level of schooling.
  • 升学。
    Zhè suǒ xué xiào de shēng xué lǜ hěn gāo.
    The rate of students moving up to higher schools at this school is very high.
  • 升学。
    Tā yīn wèi shēng xué bān dào le lìng yí gè chéng shì.
    He moved to another city because of moving up to a higher school.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

升shēngadvance
学xuéschool

升 means advance and 学 means school, so 升学 describes moving up to a higher school.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape comes from a drawing of a standard dipper used to measure one 升.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 學; 学 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 學 may have used 爻 and 六 for sound, with hands and a child added later; the simplified 学 is a shorthand.

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HSK 3.0 Level 6

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