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HSK
university / college / CL:
HSK 1
middle school
HSK 1
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  *学* | 学* | *学
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
HSK 1
to study at the same school / fellow student / classmate / CL: , 個|个
HSK 1
elementary school; primary school
HSK 1
to dismiss students at the end of the school day
HSK 1
to go to school / to attend school
HSK 1
science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 種|种
HSK 2
teaching; instruction / CL:
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
middle and elementary school
HSK 2
literature / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
to study abroad
HSK 3
medicine / medical science / study of medicine
HSK 4
philosophy / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
self-study / to study on one's own
HSK 6
to enter a school or college / to go to school for the first time as a child
HSK 6
to enter the next grade school
HSK 6
to run a school
HSK 6
eager to study / studious / erudite
HSK 6
scholarship / high-level study / to do scholarly research / to pursue a high level of study
HSK 7-9
to quit school
HSK 7-9
Confucianism
HSK 7-9
to lecture (on branch of learning)
HSK 7-9
(of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
HSK 7-9
to work part-time while studying / work-study program
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
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism
optics
to teach (as a professor)
senior high school / abbr. to 高中
electrochemistry
biochemistry
geography
Jilin University
accounting / accountancy
Waseda University (private university in Tokyo)
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
aesthetics
pharmacy
mathematics
Sunday School
chemistry / chemical
acoustics
East China University of Science and Technology
mechanics / to study hard
learned; erudite
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
law / legal studies
forestry
business studies / commerce as an academic subject
to drop out of school / to leave off studying / to interrupt one's studies
elite fee-charging independent school in England or Wales (e.g. Eton College)
Beijing Forestry University
historiography
to attend school
school inspector
agricultural science
study of the Confucian classics
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team
talent and learning / scholarship
junior scholar or pupil in imperial China
University of Manila
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals / translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
to play truant / to cut classes
Buddhist doctrine / Buddhist studies
to suspend schooling / to defer study
to return to school (after an interruption) / to resume one's studies
electrical engineering
to study away from home or abroad (old)
to hate studying
"Redology", academic field devoted to the study of A Dream of Red Mansions
easy to learn
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
Imperial College of Supreme Learning, established in 124 BC, and the highest educational institute in ancient China until the Sui Dynasty
Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
to establish schools / to raise the standard of education
metaphysics
Shanxi University
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
studious / diligent in study
sexology
unable to go to school / an interruption to one's education
solid learning / real ability and learning / genuine talent
famous school / noted school of thought
end of school
learned / erudite / scholarly
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
easy to learn
School of Mind / Neo-Confucian Idealistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Wang Yangming 王陽明|王阳明)
shallow study / superficial / scant knowledge
phonetics
ecology
to attend school as a day student
not ashamed to learn from subordinates (idiom)
genetics
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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