高三 (gāo sān) — senior year of high school (grade 12 in China)

Definition

noun
senior year of high school (grade 12 in China)

Examples

  • 高三
    gāo sān De xué xí yā lì fēi cháng dà.
    The academic pressure in senior year of high school is enormous.
  • 高三
    Tā gāo sān shí měi tiān zhī shuì wǔ gè xiǎo shí.
    He only slept five hours a day during his senior year of high school.
  • 高三
    gāo sān Jié shù hòu, tóng xué men dōu zhǔn bèi shàng dà xué le.
    After senior year of high school, all the students prepared to go to college.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

gāosenior high
sānthree

The character 高 indicates senior high school, and 三 marks the third year.

Characters in this word

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

高 was drawn as a tall building.

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An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

三 is drawn as three parallel strokes, like 一 with one stroke and 二 with two.

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