zung1 hok6 saang1中學生中学生
Jyutpingzung1 hok6 saang1
Yalejūng hohk sāang
Definition
Secondary school student; middle or high school student.
neutralschoolpeople
How it's used
Refers specifically to students in the secondary education system, which covers Form 1 to Form 6 in Hong Kong. It is a neutral term used to describe someone's current academic status or to identify a demographic group. Unlike formal written Chinese, it is frequently used with the classifier 個 in spoken sentences.
Measure word
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Related words
Common phrases
to be a secondary school student
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
