普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
Traditional form:
普通高等學校招生全國統一考試
Pinyin (reading):
Pǔtōng Gāoděng Xuéxiào Zhāoshēng Quánguó Tǒngyī Kǎoshì
Definitions:
- NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC)
- usually abbr. to 高考 (gāokǎo)
Characters:
- 普 - widespread, universal, general
- 通 - to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common
- 高 - tall, lofty; high, elevated
- 等 - rank, grade; same, equal; to wait
- 学 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
- 校 - school; military field officer
- 招 - to summon; to recruit; to levy
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 全 - whole, entire, complete; to preserve
- 国 - country, nation, state; national
- 统 - to govern, to command; to gather, to unite
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 考 - to test, to investigate, to examine
- 试 - to try, to experiment; exam, test
Traditional characters:
- 普 - widespread, universal, general
- 通 - to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common
- 高 - tall, lofty; high, elevated
- 等 - rank, grade; same, equal; to wait
- 學 - learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
- 校 - school; military field officer
- 招 - to summon; to recruit; to levy
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 全 - whole, entire, complete; to preserve
- 國 - country, nation, state; national
- 統 - to govern, to command; to gather, to unite
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 考 - to test, to investigate, to examine
- 試 - to try, to experiment; exam, test