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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

考上

kǎoshàng

to pass a university entrance exam

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to pass a university entrance exam

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 考上 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 考上 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他努力学习,为的是能够考上大学。tā nǔ lì xué xí, wèi de shì néng gòu kǎo shàng dà xué。

He studied hard in order to get into college.

努力不见得能考上理想的大学。nǔ lì bú jiàn de néng kǎo shàng lǐ xiǎng de dà xué。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 考上.

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

Directly before

  • 能够考上1
  • 能考上1

Directly after

  • 考上大学1
  • 考上理想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 考上

What does 考上 mean in Chinese?

考上 (kǎoshàng) means to pass a university entrance exam.

How do you pronounce 考上?

考上 is pronounced kǎoshàng.

Is 考上 an HSK word?

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

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