就学 (jiù xué) — to attend school (formal; to be enrolled as a student)

Definition

verb
to attend school (formal; to be enrolled as a student)

Examples

  • 就学。
    Tā jīn nián qiū tiān kāi shǐ jiù xué.
    He will start attending school this fall.
  • 就学。
    Quán guó jiù xué ér tóng rén shù zhú nián zēng jiā.
    The number of children attending school nationwide is increasing year by year.
  • 就学。
    Zhè suǒ dà xué yǒu lái zì quán guó gè dì jiù xué de xué shēng.
    This university has students attending from all over the country.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

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

就jiùattend
学xuéschool

就 means to attend, 学 means school; together to attend school.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

An older form paired 享, a temple, with 京, a tower, showing sacrifice at a high place; in 就 the temple part was dropped and a right part for going upward was added.

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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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