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scholar
HSK 5
cultivated individual; scholar; literati
HSK 7-9
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
(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.)
Yu Dan (1965–), Chinese scholar and author known for popularizing Chinese classical thought
Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史
scholar / academician / fellow (of an academy)
HSK 7-9
scholar officials
(literary) student / scholar
HSK 7-9
scholar / learned person
gifted scholar
(idiom) to respect people of virtue and show courtesy to scholars
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
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  *儒* | 儒* | *儒
scholar / Confucian
scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)
lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
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)
Tao Zongyi (c. 1329-1410), Yuan dynasty scholar
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁
everyday robe worn at home in ancient times / robe worn by priests, monks and scholars
elegant scholar
official / scholar (old)
scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times)
Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies
Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城
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
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言
The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓
(idiom) "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
literati / scholar
Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar
scholar / intellectual / egghead
Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera
Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts
Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
(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
Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar
Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记
Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars
scholar
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword
Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar
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
Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history
distinguished assembly (of scholars)
lit. beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
Confucian scholar (old)
Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
great scholar respected for learning and integrity
Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonnets
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears
a Confucian scholar
worthless scholar / useless wretch
(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
Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty
Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
Great European Scholar (honorific title of Matteo Ricci)
philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤|周敦颐, starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes
(old) impoverished scholar
a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent
Li Zhao (c. 800), Tang dynasty scholar and official
surname Ashrawi / Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (1946-), Palestinian scholar and political activist
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  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
experienced scholar / old expert in the field
(idiom) frail scholar
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  *槐* | 槐* | *槐
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学
scholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849)
Confucian scholar
scholar's rock (one of the naturally-eroded, fantastically-shaped rocks put on display indoors or in gardens in China)
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
(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
junior scholar or pupil in imperial China
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
Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈 in 17th century
Sun Shan, Song Dynasty joker and talented scholar
Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997), scholar and novelist
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
Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
Wang Daiyu (1584-1670), Hui Islamic scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
brilliant young man / talented young scholar
Shao Yong (1011-1077), Northern Song poet and Rationalist scholar 理學家|理学家
Ngawang Choepel (Tibetan, Fulbright scholar)
scholar; intellectual
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US

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