公学

公學

gōngxué

noun

Meanings

HSK 6

他十三岁就被送进一所寄宿公学，后来考上了牛津。

Tā shísān suì jiù bèi sòngjìn yì suǒ jìsù gōngxué, hòulái kǎoshàng le Niújīn.

At thirteen he was sent to a boarding public school, and later got into Oxford.

HSK 7-9

英国的公学其实是私立学校。

Yīngguó de gōngxué qíshí shì sīlì xuéxiào.

Britain's public schools are actually private schools.

mistakes

A 公学 is not a state school, which is a 公立学校. The word translates the British "public school", as in 伊顿公学 (Eton College).

history

Late-Qing China also used the word for some new-style schools, such as 南洋公学 (1896), the ancestor of today's 交通大学 universities.

公 gōng

学 xué