同学 (tóngxué) means Classmate (fellow student). Below are 24 of the 30 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
同学 们纷纷提问。
Tóngxuémen fēnfēn tíwèn.
The students asked questions one after another.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 提问
同学 们排得很整齐。
Tóngxuémen pái de hěn zhěngqí.
The students are lined up neatly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 整齐
个别 同学 还没交作业。
Gèbié tóngxué hái méi jiāo zuòyè.
A few individual students have not handed in their homework.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 个别
姐姐嫁给了她的 同学 。
Jiějie jià gěi le tā de tóngxué.
My sister married her classmate.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 嫁
同学 们轮流打扫教室。
Tóngxuémen lúnliú dǎsǎo jiàoshì.
The students take turns cleaning the classroom.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 轮流
大家热烈欢迎新 同学 。
Dàjiā rèliè huānyíng xīn tóngxué.
Everyone warmly welcomed the new classmate.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 热烈
弟弟和 同学 一起踢足球。
Dìdi hé tóngxué yìqǐ tī zúqiú.
My younger brother plays football with his classmates.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 踢足球
同学 之间应该互相帮助。
Tóngxué zhījiān yīnggāi hùxiāng bāngzhù.
Classmates should help each other.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 互相
同学 们去医院看望老师。
Tóngxuémen qù yīyuàn kànwàng lǎoshī.
The students went to the hospital to visit the teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 看望
我在路上碰见了老 同学 。
Wǒ zài lù shàng pèngjiàn le lǎo tóngxué.
I ran into an old classmate on the way.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 碰
同学 们一起布置了教室。
Tóngxuémen yìqǐ bùzhì le jiàoshì.
The students decorated the classroom together.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 布置
不要孤立任何一个 同学 。
Bú yào gūlì rènhé yí ge tóngxué.
Do not isolate any classmate.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 孤立
他小时候常被 同学 欺负。
Tā xiǎoshíhou cháng bèi tóngxué qīfu.
He was often bullied by classmates as a child.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 欺负
他常常想起昔日的 同学 。
Tā chángcháng xiǎngqǐ xīrì de tóngxué.
He often thinks of his classmates of former days.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 昔日
教室是 同学 们一起打扫的。
Jiàoshì shì tóngxuémen yìqǐ dǎsǎo de.
The classroom was cleaned by the students together.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 打扫
全班 同学 投票选出了班长。
Quán bān tóngxué tóupiào xuǎn chū le bānzhǎng.
The whole class voted to elect the monitor.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 投票
我在超市遇到了一位老 同学 。
Wǒ zài chāoshì yùdào le yí wèi lǎo tóngxué.
I ran into an old classmate at the supermarket.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 遇到
大部分 同学 都同意这个安排。
Dà bùfen tóngxué dōu tóngyì zhège ānpái.
Most of the students agree with this arrangement.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 部分
凡是报名的 同学 都可以参加。
Fánshì bàomíng de tóngxué dōu kěyǐ cānjiā.
Any student who has signed up may take part.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 凡是
同学 们争先恐后地举手发言。
Tóngxuémen zhēng xiān kǒng hòu de jǔshǒu fāyán.
The students all raced to raise their hands and speak.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 争先恐后
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From the graded readers
左边的是她大学最好的朋友,右边的两个是同班 同学 。
zuǒbiān de / dì shì tā dàxué zuìhǎo de / dì péngyou, yòubiān de / dì liǎng gè shì tóng bān tóngxué.
The one on the left was her best friend at university; the two on the right were classmates.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
同学 appears in 30 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 同学
How is 同学 used in a sentence?
This page shows 30 sentences using 同学 (tóngxué, "Classmate (fellow student)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 同学 an HSK word?
Yes — 同学 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 同学?
The dictionary page for 同学 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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