考研

kǎoyán
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to take the graduate school entrance exam
  2. 2 to sit for postgraduate entrance exams

Examples

Tā dà sì nà nián juédìng kǎoyán.
She decided to sit the grad school entrance exam in her senior year.
Kǎoyán bǐ gāokǎo hái xīnkǔ.
The grad school entrance exam is even harder than the gaokao.

Tips

culture
Short for 考研 (take the grad school entrance exam), officially held nationwide in late December. Numbers have ballooned past 4 million candidates in recent years as job-market competition intensifies.

Stroke Order

kǎo
yán