The word 入学 (rùxué) is a compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: 入 (rù), meaning "to enter", and 学 (xué), meaning "school" or "learning". It follows the common Chinese grammatical structure of a verb-object relationship, where the first character acts upon the second. Literally, it means "to enter school" or "to enter into studies", and it has conventionalized as a standard term referring to the specific act of matriculation, enrollment, or school entrance.