大学生
dà xué shēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 大學生
Someone studying at a university or college. Chinese can call a student at any level 学生, but once someone is at university this is the word people use. A postgraduate student is a 研究生 (yánjiūshēng).
Sinh viên: người đang học đại học hoặc cao đẳng. Tiếng Trung gọi người đi học ở cấp nào cũng có thể là 学生, nhưng nói rõ là sinh viên thì dùng 大学生. Học viên cao học, nghiên cứu sinh là 研究生 (yánjiūshēng).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “大学生” mean?
Someone studying at a university or college. Chinese can call a student at any level 学生, but once someone is at university this is the word people use. A postgraduate student is a 研究生 (yánjiūshēng). Literally: big school student
Is “大学生” formal or informal?
大学生 is generally neutral.