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HSK
university / college / CL:
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
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
science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 種|种
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
self-study / to study on one's own
HSK 6
to enter the next grade school
HSK 6
eager to study / studious / erudite
HSK 6
to run a school
HSK 6
(of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
HSK 7-9
Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history)
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
University of Chicago
evening college
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism
Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC from 1900-1952) / Soochow University (Taipei, Taiwan since 1954)
economics (as a field of study)
Beijing Forestry University
to suspend schooling / to defer study
aviation science
elementary school (Tw)
neurobiology
Platonism
electromagnetism
(Tw) nuclear medicine
technical university / engineering college
mathematics
optics
chemistry / chemical
social sciences
to teach (as a professor)
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 "kansei kougaku")
Newtonian mechanics
classical literature
Chongqing University
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
National Taipei University of Technology
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
to study away from home or abroad (old)
sociology
accounting / accountancy
senior high school / abbr. to 高中
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
to attend school
statistics
natural sciences
applied science
law / legal studies
dynamics (math.) / kinetics
Cairo University
Beijing Institute of Technology
physics
elite fee-charging independent school in England or Wales (e.g. Eton College)
Chung Yuan Christian University, in Taiwan
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 Confucian classics
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
Loughborough University
architectural / architecture
electrical engineering
archaeology
easy to learn
anthropology
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

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