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scholar
HSK 5
scholar / academician / fellow (of an academy)
HSK 7-9
cultivated individual; scholar; literati
HSK 7-9
(literary) student / scholar
HSK 7-9
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
gifted scholar
great scholar respected for learning and integrity
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  *槐* | 槐* | *槐
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
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
(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
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
scholar / intellectual / egghead
scholar
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
scholar / learned person
a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
scholar officials
(idiom) frail scholar
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  *儒* | 儒* | *儒
scholar / Confucian
to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies
literati / scholar
Confucian scholar (old)
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
well versed in letters and military technology (idiom); fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword
scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom)
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
elegant scholar
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
learned scholar
lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
junior scholar or pupil in imperial China
lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar
a Confucian scholar
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  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears
worthless scholar / useless wretch
experienced scholar / old expert in the field
Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar
Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar
Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards
Sun Shan, Song Dynasty joker and talented scholar
selected outstanding scholars (in former times) / cream of the crop
Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记
Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty
Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓
everyday robe worn at home in ancient times / robe worn by priests, monks and scholars
Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history
Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈 in 17th century
Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar
Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997), scholar and novelist
Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts
Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar
Yu Dan (1965-), female scholar, writer, educator and TV presenter
Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars
Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars
lit. beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
scholar's rock (one of the naturally-eroded, fantastically-shaped rocks put on display indoors or in gardens in China)
(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
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁
Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史
Lü Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙
official / scholar (old)
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤|周敦颐, starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes
Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言
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
Li Zhao (c. 800), Tang dynasty scholar and official
Ke Shaomin (1850-1933), scholar, author of New History of the Yuan Dynasty 新元史
Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera
Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar
Great European Scholar (honorific title of Matteo Ricci)
sinologist / scholar of Chinese
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
Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
Wang Daiyu (1584-1670), Hui Islamic scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
scholars of various talents (idiom)
scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007
scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times)
Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonnets
Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
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
scholar / intellectual
Shao Yong (1011-1077), Northern Song poet and Rationalist scholar 理學家|理学家
Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城
scholar-official in the Qing dynasty (1764-1849)
surname Ashrawi / Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (1946-), Palestinian scholar and political activist
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US
Ngawang Choepel (Tibetan, Fulbright scholar)
Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author

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