学生
xué sheng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 學生
A student — anyone enrolled to study, from primary school to university. A school pupil is 小学生 or 中学生; a university student is 大学生.
Người đi học nói chung, từ tiểu học đến đại học. Học sinh tiểu học là 小学生, học sinh trung học là 中学生, còn sinh viên là 大学生.
NounRegister: 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 sinh” (hoc-sinh). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “学生” mean?
A student — anyone enrolled to study, from primary school to university. A school pupil is 小学生 or 中学生; a university student is 大学生. Literally: study person
Is “学生” formal or informal?
学生 is generally neutral.