学
xué
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 學
To learn, to study (a subject or a skill). What is learned follows directly: 学汉语 'learn Chinese', 学开车 'learn to drive'. With no object Chinese usually says 学习. At the end of a compound it names a school or a field of study: 大学 'university', 科学 'science'.
Học: tiếp thu một môn, một nghề, một kỹ năng. Thứ được học đặt ngay sau động từ: 学汉语 (học tiếng Trung), 学开车 (học lái xe). Khi không có tân ngữ thì thường nói 学习. Đứng cuối từ ghép, nó chỉ trường học hoặc ngành học: 大学 (đại học), 科学 (khoa học).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (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 “học” (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 “学” mean?
To learn, to study (a subject or a skill). What is learned follows directly: 学汉语 'learn Chinese', 学开车 'learn to drive'. With no object Chinese usually says 学习. At the end of a compound it names a school or a field of study: 大学 'university', 科学 'science'.
Is “学” formal or informal?
学 is generally neutral.