学期
Pinyin: xué qī
semester
Example sentence
新学期开始了。
Xīn xuéqī kāishǐ le.
The new semester has started.
What 学期 means
学期 (xué qī) is a Chinese word meaning “semester”. It belongs to the Concepts & Ideas topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.