He is sometimes absent from school.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
逃学
to play truant
IN A VIDEO逃学
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to play truant
02
to cut classes
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 逃学 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 逃学 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
They always skip school.
Quite a few students played truant from school.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 逃学.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 逃学.
Directly before
- 学生逃学1
- 偶尔逃学1
- 宁愿逃学1
- 总是逃学1
- 汤姆逃学1
Directly after
- 逃学了1
- 逃学也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 逃学
What does 逃学 mean in Chinese?
逃学 (táoxué) means to play truant.
How do you pronounce 逃学?
逃学 is pronounced táoxué.
Is 逃学 an HSK word?
逃学 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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