下课
xià kè
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 下課
For a class to end, so that students can leave or take a break. Teachers dismiss a class by saying it, and 下课以后 means 'after class'. The end of the whole school day is a different word, 放学 (fàngxué).
Hết tiết, tan lớp: giờ học kết thúc, học sinh được ra về hoặc ra chơi. Thầy cô nói câu này để cho lớp nghỉ; 下课以后 là “sau giờ học”. Tan trường cuối ngày là một từ khác: 放学 (fàngxué).
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 “下课” mean?
For a class to end, so that students can leave or take a break. Teachers dismiss a class by saying it, and 下课以后 means 'after class'. The end of the whole school day is a different word, 放学 (fàngxué).
Is “下课” formal or informal?
下课 is generally neutral.