中学
zhōng xué
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 中學
Secondary school: the years between primary school and university. In China it has a junior part, 初中 (chūzhōng), and a senior part, 高中 (gāozhōng). A pupil there is a 中学生.
Trường trung học: những năm học giữa tiểu học và đại học. Ở Trung Quốc gồm phần dưới là 初中 (chūzhōng, như trung học cơ sở) và phần trên là 高中 (gāozhōng, như trung học phổ thông). Học sinh trung học là 中学生.
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 “trung học” (trung-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 “中学” mean?
Secondary school: the years between primary school and university. In China it has a junior part, 初中 (chūzhōng), and a senior part, 高中 (gāozhōng). A pupil there is a 中学生. Literally: middle school
Is “中学” formal or informal?
中学 is generally neutral.