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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

挂科

guàkē

to fail (a course)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to fail (a course)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 挂科 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 挂科 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我不想挂科。wǒ bù xiǎng guà kē。

I don't want to fail my exams.

我要挂科了!wǒ yào guà kē le!

I'm going to fail the class!

所有学生都挂科的考试比所有学生都通过的考试要难。suǒ yǒu xué shēng dōu guà kē de kǎo shì bǐ suǒ yǒu xué shēng dōu tōng guò de kǎo shì yào nán。

The exam that every student failed is harder than the exam that every student passed.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 挂科.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 挂科.

Directly before

  • 不想挂科1
  • 我要挂科1
  • 都挂科1

Directly after

  • 挂科了1
  • 挂科的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 挂科

What does 挂科 mean in Chinese?

挂科 (guàkē) means to fail (a course).

How do you pronounce 挂科?

挂科 is pronounced guàkē.

Is 挂科 an HSK word?

挂科 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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