放学

Character by character

• 放fàng8 strokesHSK 1put, release, free, liberate
• 学xué8 strokesHSK 1 traditional 學learning, knowledge; school

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 放学. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 放fàngHSK 1

  to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)

• 学校xué xiàoHSK 1

  school

• 学xuéHSK 1

  to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology

• 学生xué shengHSK 1

  student; schoolchild

• 学习xué xíHSK 1

  to learn; to study

• 大学dà xuéHSK 1

  university; college

• 放弃fàng qìHSK 5

  to renounce; to abandon; to give up

• 科学kē xuéHSK 2

  science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational

• 同学tóng xuéHSK 1

  to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate

• 学会xué huìHSK 6

  to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association

• 放下fàng xiàHSK 2

  to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)

• 放松fàng sōngHSK 4

  to relax; to slacken; to loosen

• 学院xué yuànHSK 1

  college; educational institute; school; faculty

• 放心fàng xīnHSK 2

  to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease

• 释放shì fàngHSK 7

  to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge

• 上学shàng xuéHSK 1

  to go to school; to attend school

• 数学shù xué

  mathematics; mathematical

• 开放kāi fàngHSK 3

  to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality

• 医学yī xuéHSK 4

  medicine; medical science; study of medicine

• 放到fàng dàoHSK 3

  Put in

• 化学huà xué

  chemistry; chemical

• 科学家kē xué jiāHSK 2

  scientist

• 改革开放gǎi gé kāi fàngHSK 7

  to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980

• 解放jiě fàngHSK 5

  to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949