Example sentences
xué学xiào校zài在nǎ哪ér儿?
Where is the school?
wǒ我qù去xué学xiào校。
I go to school.
The story behind the character
学
The traditional 學 is a whole scene: 爻 (counting rods for divination) on top, two hands fiddling with them, and 子 (a child) below. A kid working the rods with his hands. That's the oldest picture of learning. Xu Shen wrote 学, 觉悟也: "to awaken."