上学
shàng xué
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 上學
To go to school as a pupil, either on a particular day or as a stage of life. 去上学 is setting off for school in the morning, and 还没上学 can mean a child is not yet of school age. For university, people say 上大学.
Đi học ở trường, theo nghĩa đến trường hằng ngày hay đã đến tuổi đi học. 去上学 là đến trường; 还没上学 có thể là chưa đến tuổi đi học. Học đại học thì nói 上大学.
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 “上学” mean?
To go to school as a pupil, either on a particular day or as a stage of life. 去上学 is setting off for school in the morning, and 还没上学 can mean a child is not yet of school age. For university, people say 上大学.
Is “上学” formal or informal?
上学 is generally neutral.