上课
shàng kè
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 上課
To have a lesson, whether you are the one learning or the one teaching. 上课了 means 'class is starting'. Other words can come between its two parts: 上了两节课 'had two lessons'. Its opposite is 下课.
Có giờ học: với học sinh là vào học, với thầy cô là lên lớp dạy. 上课了 là “vào học rồi”. Hai phần có thể tách ra: 上了两节课 (học hai tiết). Ngược lại là 下课.
VerbRegister: 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 “上课” mean?
To have a lesson, whether you are the one learning or the one teaching. 上课了 means 'class is starting'. Other words can come between its two parts: 上了两节课 'had two lessons'. Its opposite is 下课.
Is “上课” formal or informal?
上课 is generally neutral.