小学生
xiǎo xué shēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 小學生
A child who goes to primary school. The word is 小学 'primary school' plus 生 'student', a pattern that also gives 中学生 and 大学生. The measure word is 个: 两个小学生 'two pupils'.
Học sinh tiểu học, các em nhỏ đang học ở trường tiểu học. Từ này là 小学 (tiểu học) cộng 生 (người học); theo cùng cách ấy có 中学生, 大学生. Lượng từ là 个: 两个小学生 (hai em học sinh tiểu 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 ↗ · 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 “小学生” mean?
A child who goes to primary school. The word is 小学 'primary school' plus 生 'student', a pattern that also gives 中学生 and 大学生. The measure word is 个: 两个小学生 'two pupils'. Literally: small school student
Is “小学生” formal or informal?
小学生 is generally neutral.