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大学

dà xué

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pinyin
dà xué
simplified
大学
traditional
大學

1 · noun

university

提供高等教育的学校。

Lowercase da4 xue2 refers to higher education, not the title of the classical text.

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When she went to university, she lived away from home on her own for the first time.

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她上大学以后,第一次离开家独自生活。

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