同学
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 同學
Someone you go, or went, to school with: a classmate or schoolmate. A teacher speaks to the class as 同学们, and an old schoolmate is a 老同学. The measure word is 个 or, more politely, 位 (wèi).
Bạn học: người đang hoặc đã từng học cùng lớp, cùng trường với mình. Thầy cô gọi cả lớp là 同学们 (các em); bạn học cũ là 老同学. Lượng từ là 个, lịch sự hơn là 位 (wèi).
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 “同学” mean?
Someone you go, or went, to school with: a classmate or schoolmate. A teacher speaks to the class as 同学们, and an old schoolmate is a 老同学. The measure word is 个 or, more politely, 位 (wèi). Literally: same study
Is “同学” formal or informal?
同学 is generally neutral.