练习生

練習生

liànxíshēng

noun #68,569

Meanings

1 idol trainee
2 trainee; apprentice

Characters

student; trainee

Examples

HSK 4

她十五岁就去韩国当了练习生。

Tā shíwǔ suì jiù qù Hánguó dāng le liànxíshēng.

She went to South Korea as a trainee at fifteen.

HSK 4

很多练习生每天唱歌跳舞要练十几个小时，最后却没能出道。

Hěnduō liànxíshēng měi tiān chànggē tiàowǔ yào liàn shíjǐ ge xiǎoshí, zuìhòu què méi néng chūdào.

Many trainees practice singing and dancing for over ten hours a day and still never get to debut.

Tips

culture

The trainee system comes from South Korean entertainment companies: teenagers sign with an agency, train together for years, and only some of them debut. The talent show 《偶像练习生》 (Idol Producer, 2018) brought the system to Chinese screens, with viewers voting on who debuts.

Stroke Order

练 liàn

习 xí

生 shēng