Ideographic: A building 冖 where children 子 study; ⺍ provides the pronunciationRadical:

meaning for xué:

  • - to learn
  • - to study
  • - to imitate
  • - science
  • - -ologyschool
  • - Classifiers: 所 to learn
  • - to studyliterature
  • - Classifiers: 种 the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianismuniversity
  • - college
  • - Classifiers: 所

xué
guò
yīngwén英文

I have studied English before.


yào
xué
wàiguóyǔ外国语

I want to learn a foreign language.


cái
kāishǐ开始
xué
zhōngwén中文

I have just begun learning Chinese


zuìjìn最近
zhèngzài正在
xué
jiàzhào驾照

I am currently learning to drive.


zhège这个
xīngqī星期
yígòng一共
xué
le
shí
hànzì汉字

This week, I learned a total of ten Chinese characters.