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考生

kǎo shēng 3–1

exam candidate; student whose name has been put forward for an exam

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
考 · 生
Syllables
2
kǎo shēng
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 26,644

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 考kǎo6 strokesHSK 1examine, test; investigate
  • 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

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

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