学校
xué xiào
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 學校
A school: any place of teaching, from primary school to university. 在学校 is 'at school' and 去学校 'to go to the school'; to attend school as a pupil is 上学. The levels are 小学 primary school, 中学 secondary school and 大学 university.
Trường học, nhà trường: nơi dạy và học nói chung, từ tiểu học đến đại học. 在学校 là ở trường, 去学校 là đến trường; còn “đi học” thì nói 上学. Các cấp học: 小学 (tiểu học), 中学 (trung học), 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 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 hiệu” (hoc-hieu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “学校” mean?
A school: any place of teaching, from primary school to university. 在学校 is 'at school' and 去学校 'to go to the school'; to attend school as a pupil is 上学. The levels are 小学 primary school, 中学 secondary school and 大学 university. Literally: study school
Is “学校” formal or informal?
学校 is generally neutral.