大学
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Traditional: 大學
A university; also higher education, the stage after secondary school. 上大学 is 'to go to university', 大学生 'a university student'; the measure word is 所: 一所大学. In names the place comes first: 北京大学 'Peking University'.
Trường đại học; cũng chỉ bậc học sau trung học phổ thông. 上大学 là “học đại học, vào đại học”, 大学生 là “sinh viên”; lượng từ là 所: 一所大学. Tên riêng đặt lên trước: 北京大学 (Đại học Bắc Kinh).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “đại học” (dai-hoc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “大学” mean?
A university; also higher education, the stage after secondary school. 上大学 is 'to go to university', 大学生 'a university student'; the measure word is 所: 一所大学. In names the place comes first: 北京大学 'Peking University'. Literally: great learning
Is “大学” formal or informal?
大学 is generally neutral.