VocabularyHSK 3 · core

学院

xuéyuàn

college

Part of speech · noun

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學study

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Examples

我在学院学习。
I study at the college.
艺术学院。
Art college.

Collocations

艺术学院一所学院在学院

Mnemonic

学院 xuéyuàn "college, institute" — 学 (learning, traditional 學) + 院 (institution). Distinct from 大学 dàxué (university). Korean cognate hagwon means "private cram school", semantic shift (false friend). Japanese 学院 gakuin is closer to ZH meaning.

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