中学生
zhōng xué shēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 中學生
A secondary-school student, a teenager between primary school and university. In China it covers pupils of both 初中 (junior) and 高中 (senior). Like 小学生 and 大学生, it is a school level plus 生 'student'.
Học sinh trung học, tức học sinh cấp hai và cấp ba. Ở Trung Quốc từ này chỉ chung học sinh 初中 (trung học cơ sở) và 高中 (trung học phổ thông). Cũng như 小学生, 大学生, từ này là cấp học cộng với 生 (người 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 “中学生” mean?
A secondary-school student, a teenager between primary school and university. In China it covers pupils of both 初中 (junior) and 高中 (senior). Like 小学生 and 大学生, it is a school level plus 生 'student'. Literally: middle school student
Is “中学生” formal or informal?
中学生 is generally neutral.