| | scholar | HSK 5 |
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| | cultivated individual; scholar; literati | HSK 7-9 |
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| | scholar / academician / fellow (of an academy) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (literary) student / scholar | HSK 7-9 |
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| | member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker | |
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| | Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree | |
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| | (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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| | (medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员) a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received | |
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| | scholar / intellectual / egghead | |
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| | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇) | |
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| | Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant | |
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| | a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power | |
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| | (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.) | |
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| | scholar / Confucian | |
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| | expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea | |
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| | junior scholar or pupil in imperial China | |
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| | great scholar respected for learning and integrity | |
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| | to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies | |
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| | scholar / learned person | |
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| | (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant | |
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| | scholar officials | |
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| | Confucian scholar (old) | |
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| | elegant scholar | |
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| | well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword | |
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| | gifted scholar | |
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| | scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom) | |
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| | can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom) | |
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| | a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire | |
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| | scholar | |
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| | literati / scholar | |
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| | (old) impoverished scholar | |
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| | learned scholar | |
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| | (idiom) frail scholar | |
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| | lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers | |
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| | Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar | |
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| | lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears | |
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| | a Confucian scholar | |
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| | the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记) | |
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| | lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking | |
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| | Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar | |
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| | worthless scholar / useless wretch | |
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| | Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言 | |
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| | experienced scholar / old expert in the field | |
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| | Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar | |
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| | Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards | |
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| | official / scholar (old) | |
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| | Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar | |
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| | (old) to select talented scholars for government service (through exams etc) / (Zhou dynasty) distinguished individuals selected and recommended from various regions to the central government | |
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| | Sun Shan, Song Dynasty joker and talented scholar | |
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| | Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author | |
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| | Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty | |
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| | distinguished assembly (of scholars) | |
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| | Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition | |
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| | Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar | |
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| | Ming dynasty scholar (1602-1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记 | |
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| | Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera | |
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| | Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城 | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | everyday robe worn at home in ancient times / robe worn by priests, monks and scholars | |
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| | Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar | |
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| | Yu Dan (1965-), female scholar, writer, educator and TV presenter | |
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| | lit. beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers | |
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| | Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution | |
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| | Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history | |
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| | Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通 | |
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| | (idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point | |
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| | (idiom) to respect people of virtue and show courtesy to scholars | |
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| | philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤|周敦颐, starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes | |
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| | The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓 | |
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| | Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁 | |
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| | Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈 in 17th century | |
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| | Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar | |
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| | Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997), scholar and novelist | |
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| | Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition | |
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| | Kong Yiji, protagonist of a short story of the same name by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅 depicting the life of a poor, unsuccessful scholar who clings to his Confucian ideals despite his dismal circumstances | |
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| | Wang Shuwen (735-806), famous Tang dynasty scholar, Go player and politician, a leader of failed Yongzhen Reform 永貞革新|永贞革新 of 805 | |
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| | Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts | |
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| | Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US | |
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| | Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars | |
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| | Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars | |
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| | scholar's rock (one of the naturally-eroded, fantastically-shaped rocks put on display indoors or in gardens in China) | |
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| | Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史 | |
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| | Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙 | |
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| | (idiom) "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar | |
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| | Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈 in promoting classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 | |
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| | Li Zhao (c. 800), Tang dynasty scholar and official | |
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| | Ke Shaomin (1850-1933), scholar, author of New History of the Yuan Dynasty 新元史 | |
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| | Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar | |
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| | Great European Scholar (honorific title of Matteo Ricci) | |
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| | sinologist / scholar of Chinese | |
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| | Wang Daiyu (1584-1670), Hui Islamic scholar of the Ming-Qing transition | |
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| | scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学 | |
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| | scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times) | |
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| | Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonnets | |
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| | Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260 | |
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| | Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 | |
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| | Yu Yinglong, Yuan dynasty scholar, collaborated on the geographical encyclopedia Dayuan Dayi Tongzhi 大元大一統誌|大元大一统志 | |
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