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university / college / CL:
HSK 1
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  *學* | 學* | *學
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
HSK 1
middle school
HSK 1
to study at the same school / fellow student / classmate / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
elementary school; primary school
HSK 1
to go to school / to attend school
HSK 1
to dismiss students at the end of the school day
HSK 1
science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 種|种
HSK 2
teaching; instruction / CL:
HSK 2
middle and elementary school
HSK 2
(of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term
HSK 2
literature / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
to study abroad
HSK 3
medicine / medical science / study of medicine
HSK 4
to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child
HSK 6
philosophy / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
eager to study / studious / erudite
HSK 6
self-study / to study on one's own
HSK 6
to enter the next grade school
HSK 6
to run a school
HSK 6
Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history)
HSK 7-9
(of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
HSK 7-9
to pursue one's studies; to attend school / to seek knowledge
HSK 7-9
to quit school
HSK 7-9
scholarship / high-level study / to do scholarly research / to pursue a high level of study
HSK 7-9
Confucianism
HSK 7-9
to lecture (on branch of learning)
HSK 7-9
to work part-time while studying / work-study program
HSK 7-9
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism
economics (as a field of study)
psychology
to teach (as a professor)
politics / political science
technical university / engineering college
mathematics
chemistry / chemical
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
social sciences
zoological / zoology
political economy
elementary school (Tw)
optics
easy to learn
classical literature
junior high school (Tw) / abbr. to 國中|国中
University of Science and Engineering / also sometimes Institute of Technology
Tsinghua University, Beijing / National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
aesthetics
normal university / teacher training college
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan
abbr. for 上海交通大學|上海交通大学 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 西安交通大學|西安交通大学 Xia'an Jiaotong University, 國立交通大學|国立交通大学 National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) etc
pharmacy
Fu Jen Catholic University of Peking (from 1925), forerunner of Beijing Normal University 北京師範大學|北京师范大学 / Fu Jen Catholic University in New Taipei City, Taiwan
theological / theology
mechanics / to study hard
Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC from 1900-1952) / Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan since 1954)
to study away from home or abroad (old)
sociology
astronomy
accounting / accountancy
senior high school / abbr. to 高中
Buddhist doctrine / Buddhist studies
to attend school
biology
statistics
natural sciences
historiography
applied science
law / legal studies
dynamics (math.) / kinetics
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
physics
elite fee-charging independent school in England or Wales (e.g. Eton College)
to suspend schooling / to defer study
Chung Yuan Christian University, in Taiwan
study of the Confucian classics
operations research (OR)
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
ergonomics
Tunghai University (in Taichung, Taiwan)
linguistics
Peking University
study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
easy to learn
School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹)
science
architectural / architecture
electrical engineering
archaeology
anthropology
epidemiology
acoustics
University of Cambridge
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
anatomy
physiology
(archaic term) logic
Sunday School
folklore
nutriology

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