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科学家kē xué jiā
scientist
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 科学家 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 科學家 | ||
| 科學家 | kēxuéjiā | |
| 1. n. scientist | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| scientist | ||
| 1. 科學家 | ||
| Components | ||
| 科 | kè | |
| 1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of fol, t=to follow, tr=fo. | ||
| 学 | ||
| 1. Variant of 學 | ||
| 2. Variant of 孛 | ||
| 孛 | bó | |
| 1. Variant of 勃 | ||
| 2. Variant of 渤 | ||
| 3. Variant of 脖 | ||
| 4. Variant of 餑 | ||
| 學 | xué, xiáo | |
| 1. to learn; to study | ||
| 學習 - to study; to learn | ||
| 我 打算 學 攝影。 - I plan to learn photography. | ||
| 我 父母親 希望 我 學 醫，但是 我 不 願意。 - My parents hoped I would study medicine, but I didn't want to. | ||
| 老師 叫 極 佢 都 唔 肯 學 講 唔該。 - He refuses to learn to say thank you, even though his teacher asked him many times. | ||
| 2. to imitate; to copy; to mimic | ||
| 鸚鵡 學 人 語。 - Parrots imitate human speech. | ||
| 我 妹妹 什麼 都 學 我。 - My little sister likes to copy everything I do. | ||
| 學 人哋 用 叉 食飯 - imitate others and use a fork to eat | ||
| 3. school | ||
| 上學 - to go to school | ||
| 小學 - primary school | ||
| 學費 - school fees | ||
| 4. learning; knowledge | ||
| 求學 - to seek knowledge | ||
| 才疏學淺 - to be of humble talent and shallow learning | ||
| 5. theory; doctrine | ||
| 儒學 - Confucianism | ||
| 6. subject; branch of learning; science; -ology | ||
| 化學 - chemistry | ||
| 生物學 - biology | ||
| 哲學 - philosophy | ||
| 7. (obsolete) Alternative form of 斆 (to teach; to instruct; to train) | ||
| 8. (zh-used, 學鳩) | ||
| 家 | jiā, jia | |
| 1. Simplified form of 傢 | ||
| 2. Only used in 大家#Pronunciation 3 (大家, tr=dàgū) | ||
| 傢 | jiā | |
| 1. stubborn, obstinate, intransigent | ||
| 2. Variant of 像 | ||
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Pronunciation
kē xué jiā
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