学民

學民

xuémín

noun

Meanings

1 average student
2 a learned man; a scholar

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

班里大部分人都是学民，成绩不好也不坏。

Bān lǐ dàbùfen rén dōu shì xuémín, chéngjì bù hǎo yě bú huài.

Most of the class are average students, with grades neither good nor bad.

HSK 7-9

我不是学霸，只是个普通的学民。

Wǒ bú shì xuébà, zhǐshì ge pǔtōng de xuémín.

I'm no top student, just an ordinary average one.

Tips

usage

Campus slang, "student commoner": the middle rung of a joke ladder that runs from 学神 (study god) and 学霸 (top student) down to 学渣 (hopeless student); lists differ on where 学弱 goes. In classical texts 学民 meant a learned man, a sense now rare.

Stroke Order

学 xué

民 mín