小学
xiǎo xué
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 小學
Primary school, the first stage of a child's schooling. A pupil there is a 小学生 and a teacher a 小学老师; after it come 中学 (secondary school) and later 大学 (university).
Trường tiểu học, cấp học đầu tiên của trẻ em. Học sinh tiểu học là 小学生, giáo viên tiểu học là 小学老师; sau đó là 中学 (trung học) rồi 大学 (đại học).
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 ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tiểu học” (tieu-hoc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “小学” mean?
Primary school, the first stage of a child's schooling. A pupil there is a 小学生 and a teacher a 小学老师; after it come 中学 (secondary school) and later 大学 (university). Literally: small school
Is “小学” formal or informal?
小学 is generally neutral.