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Definitions
- 1. to learn
- 2. to study
- 3. to imitate
- 4. science
- 5. -ology
Example Sentences
1 shown学 学 你姐姐。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 学
astrophysicist
theological
Guizhou University of Finance and Economics
mathematical model
Beijing Broadcasting Institute, former name of 中國傳媒大學|中国传媒大学[zhōng guó chuán méi dà xué]
technical middle school
New York University
law school
musicologist
political economy
vertebrate paleontology
ornithology
electrical engineering
historian
University of Guam
academic title
virology (study of viruses)
college of Western learning in late Qing
Shanghai University
social sciences
chemical warfare
National University of Singapore
interdisciplinary
anesthesiology
deep learning (artificial intelligence)
National Southwest Combined University (Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai Universities in exile in Kunming 1937-1945)
algebra (as branch of math.)
nutriology
School of Principle
Liaoning University
Nanjing Agricultural University
nonlinear optics (physics)
astronomer
colleges and universities
morphology (linguistics)
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
to enter the next grade school
generic drug; generic medicine
University of Nanking
science editor (of a publication)
biomechanics
microscopy
philosopher
Euclidean geometry
Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU)
University College, London
calculus of variations (math.)
no end to learning (idiom); There's always something new to study.
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
pragmatics
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
geographer
teaching method
ophthalmology
analytical chemistry
to immediately put into practice something one has just learned (idiom)
Ivy League school
phonetics
General Scholastic Ability Test (college entrance exam in Taiwan)
university of science and technology
rheology
a meteorologist
statics
school of thought
educational organization
International School of the Penninsula
military logistics
reportage
Journal of Atomic Scientists
agricultural science
sincere belief and diligent study
bionics
doctor of medicine
Gestalt psychology (concerned with treating a subject as a coherent whole)
Sichuan International Studies University (SISU)
limnology
physiologist
quantum chromodynamics (particle physics)
college for people who attend after work
see 村塾[cūn shú]
Darwinian
Shandong University
learned
famous school
mathematical analysis
credit system
inorganic chemistry
to learn
Bachelor of Arts
to play truant
to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[lǐ jì])
spectroscopy
infinitesimal calculus
mechanical transmission
ballistics
pedant
(medicine) histology; microscopic anatomy
of great erudition and scholarship (idiom)
pathology
regenerative medicine
student loan
Confucian study of ethics
Dutch studies (study of Europe and the world in premodern Japan)
chemical warhead
Cornell University
microelectronics
scholarship
student
epidemiology
intrinsic geometry
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
to attend school as a day student
Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
microeconomics
school building
Northern Nationalities University NNU at Yingchuan, Ningxia (former Northwestern Second College for Nationalities)
projective geometry
fluid mechanics
popularization of science
Wuhan University
East China University of Science and Technology
applied science
demography
computer scientist
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN)
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
scientific experiment
Nobel Prize in Literature
taxonomy
scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[lǐ xué]
chemical change
astrology
theory
medical expert
To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius)
operations research (OR)
lexicology (linguistics)
optics
elementary school; primary school
fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial has a complex root)
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
study of classic texts, including interpretation, glossaries and commentaries
Renmin University of China
medical school
Tokyo University, Japan
geophysics
to expel from school
cryptozoology
rule of science
University of International Business and Economics
analytic geometry
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
internal medicine
to study sth to apply it
Xuexi Qiangguo, PRC app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought, released in 2019
chiropractic
Zhanjiang Normal University
University of Manila
academician
immunology
philosophy
phonetics
Christian Science
Beijing Steel and Iron Institute (the former name of 北京科技大學|北京科技大学[běi jīng kē jì dà xué], University of Science and Technology Beijing)
oncology
Hainan University
Boston University
Egyptology
Beijing University of Technology
anti-science
Hebei University of Technology
Beijing Language Institute
epigraphy
engineering
normal university
to study hard
student loan
engineering
foundation of a University or College
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
specialized school
Chongqing University
philology
psychology
academic world
biology
fuzzy mathematics
Capital University of Business and Economics, Beijing
chemical ammunition
history
object lesson
Dalian University of Technology
University of Science and Technology Beijing
economist
superintendent of education (formal title)
PhD degree (Doctor of Philosophy)
public school
paleography
biomedical engineering
Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC from 1900-1952)
to incite trouble between people (idiom)
a great number of students (idiom)
petrochemistry
scholar
the study of seasonal phenomena (flouring, migration etc)
class
statistically significant
environmental science
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing)
Doctor of Laws
State University (US)
epigenetics
literary master
robotics
orthodontics
zoological
Eton public school (English elite school)
geography
formula
physiognomy (judgment of a person's fate, character etc, based on facial features)
atomic scientist
Southwest Jiaotong University
chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
modest and studious (idiom)
Japanology
medical school
phenomenology
Chongqing Science and Technology University
cognitive psychology
Southwest University (Chongqing)
learned; erudite
University of Alaska
associative learning
to study medicine
Jiaying University (Guangdong)
academic discipline
student studying abroad
solid learning
Inner Mongolia University
history of philosophy
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
middle and elementary school
student ID number
Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals
biochemistry
to follow bad examples
dissertation; thesis
excelling both in morals and studies (idiom); top marks for studies and for behavior (at school)
college
school
to study diligently
UCLA
Jiamusi University (Heilongjiang)
primary school student
to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom)
Beijing Dance Academy
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
academic degree
hermeneutics
thermodynamic temperature scale (in degrees Kelvin, measured above absolute zero)
Rutgers University (New Jersey)
to dismiss students at the end of the school day
seminary
University for Nationalities (university of ethnic studies)
quantum mechanics
Philology
cell biology
(math.) commutative algebra
to run a school diligently and thriftily
seminary
applied mathematics
Soka Gakkai International
fractal geometry
general middle school
Xidian University
to study abroad
zymurgy
stratigraphy (geology)
economist
combinatorial mathematics
scientific research
Tokyo Imperial University (renamed Tokyo University after 1945)
one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)
style of study
subject
to advance one's learning
institute of Sinology
Queen's University (Belfast)
rhetoric
historiography
conduct and learning (of an individual)
Stanford University
nursing
geometric optics
Shanghai Medical University
molecular biology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chang'an University
university undergraduate course
Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
Shandong University of Science and Technology
chemical detection kit
reformatory
Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)
traditional Chinese medicine
paleontologist; paleobiologist
easy to learn
sailing on the sea of learning (idiom)
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[sì shū] in Confucianism
diploma mill
Seoul National University SNU
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
virologist (person who studies viruses)
Dartmouth College
Frankenstein (novel)
members of the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院, employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards
geopolitics
military science
diploma (for a degree)
Bachelor of Science B.Sc.
metallurgy
mathematical analysis
sinologist
mathematics
pharmacokinetics
pure mathematics
anatomy
biological-chemical warfare agent
writer
to love learning is akin to knowledge, to study diligently is akin to benevolence, to know shame is akin to courage (Confucius)
English Language Teaching (ELT)
pharmacology
North University of China (Shanxi)
mathematical physics
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
a scholarly journal
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
scientific crop planting
college
Tongji University
criminology
spectroscopy
Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Shantou University
Suzhou or Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC since 1986)
veterinary pathology
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, with undergraduate campus at Changping 昌平[chāng píng], and graduate campus in Haidian district 海澱區|海淀区[hǎi diàn qū]
Johns Hopkins University
school of management
to parrot
statistics
scientific name
psychometrics
RWTH Aachen University
material science
Hanshan Normal University, Shantou, Guangdong
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
teacher's college
computational mathematics
ethnology
Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
physical chemistry
wave mechanics (physics)
optical character recognition (OCR)
boarding school
histology
Brigham Young University
school inspector
schoolchild
to lecture (on branch of learning)
unable to go to school
geochemistry
chemical weapons storage
Bar-Ilan University, in Israel
to seek a teacher desiring to study
musicology
Guangdong Ocean University
technical or industrial school
Hsuehchia town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[tái nán xiàn], Taiwan
Technical University of Berlin, Germany (Technische Universitaet zu Berlin)
eugenics
China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC)
engineering graphics
chemical dosimeter
semantics
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
jurist
art institute
Yanbian University (Jilin province)
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing
pedagogy
volcanology
Hsuehchia town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[tái nán xiàn], Taiwan
chemical property
chemical formula (e.g. water H2O)
to imitate what sb else does; to follow sb's example
toxicology
forestry
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team
Beijing Film Academy
chiropractic
politics
Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP
transfer student
theory of heat
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Jacky Cheung or Hok Yau Jacky (1961-), Cantopop and film star
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Cairo University
Charterhouse public school (UK)
technical university
pathologist
studious
Confucius Institute, organization established internationally by the PRC, promoting Chinese language and culture
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
to attend school
percentage of children who enter school
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
linguist
University of Science and Engineering
academic level
The University of Hong Kong
National Taipei University of Technology
Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)
Anhui University
numerology
human anatomy
science fiction
Shanxi University
scholastic attainments
academic freedom
Riemannian geometry
Capital University of Economics and Business (Beijing)
class hour
business studies
the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
(archaic term) logic
registration as a current student
to study hard
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
scientific parenting
Northeastern University (in Shenyang 瀋陽市|沈阳市[shěn yáng shì], Liaoning)
university and high school students
US Defense Language Institute (founded 1941)
chemical bomb
Bachelor of Arts B.A.
cytology
Chung Yuan Christian University, in Taiwan
International Mathematical Union
ethics
Hefei University of Technology
pathological science (TCM)
discrete mathematics
Guangdong Medical College
chaos theory (math.)
Harvard University
junior scholar or pupil in imperial China
astronomy
medical laboratory technology
analytical psychology
(math.) geometric topology
to be successful in one's studies
Harbin Institute of Technology
student protest
to teach (as a professor)
the Almagest by Ptolemy
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
Tsinghua University, Beijing
human geography
to creatively combine learning with usage
geologist
University of Chicago
honorary doctorate
academic circles
Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology
comparative literature
Fudan University, Shanghai
evening college
chemicals
Zhaoqing University (Guangdong)
department of chemistry
a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
ichthyology
preschool
mechanics of a continuous medium
student movement
educational establishment
bachelor's degree
chemical energy
Egyptologist
Buddhist doctrine (archaic)
eudemonics
Jilin University
University of Cambridge
Newtonian mechanics
anthropologist
aesthetics
psychiatry
optogenetics
biologist
experimental psychology
Nanjing University, NJU
seismologist
university student
school district
Loughborough University
physics
National Key Disciplines (disciplines recognized as important and supported by PRC central government, including medicine, science, chemistry, engineering, commerce and law)
university city
Shaanxi Normal University
preschool education
China Law Society
higher education record
Tongji Medical College
Southeast University
Stanford University
talent and learning
anaesthesiologist
particle physics
theologian
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)
Anhui University of Architecture
organic chemistry
University of Arkansas
doctoral degree
medical scientist
university preparatory course
materials science
music academy
Huaqiao University
study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[yì jīng]
biochemist
Beijing Institute of Education
erudition
after school
polymer chemistry
bachelor's degree
to establish schools
climatology
Beijing Academy of Fine Arts
sociology
scientism
river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
electrochemistry
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Study everything, at all times, everywhere. (Zhu Xi 朱熹[zhū xī])
modernization of science and technology, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
dynamics (math.)
Zhejiang University
summer school
University of Paris
humanities and social sciences
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Linköping University, Sweden
Life is short, learning is limitless
dual degree (academic)
private school
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
\Redology\, academic field devoted to the study of A Dream of Red Mansions
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
embryology
physiology
linguistics
China Ornithological Society
student movement
microbiologist
to work part time while studying
half-day (or double-shift) school
topology (math.)
kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 \kansei kougaku\)
mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas
educational system
religious studies
popular science
history of science
Beijing Forestry University
chemical laser
life sciences
Imperial College of Supreme Learning, established in 124 BC, and the highest educational institute in ancient China until the Sui Dynasty
anthropology
School of Mind
chemical oxygen demand (an environmental indicator)
botanist
when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit
non-Euclidean geometry
quantum electrodynamics QED
optical radar (lidar)
oceanography
geodesy
logic
academy
honorary degree
to learn from experience (coll.)
psychologist
(literary) student
the name of Academia Sinica 中央研究院[zhōng yāng yán jiū yuàn] when it was founded
Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
medical science
seismology
natural sciences
meteorology
M.Sc. (Master of Science degree)
junior or younger male schoolmate
middle-school student
business school
chemical
secondary normal school (secondary school that trains kindergarten and elementary school teachers)
laboratory medicine
China Foreign Affairs University
to hate studying
correspondence university
Central Academy of Drama
to learn a skill or art
Université Paris IV
Jinan University in Guangdong Province, with 4 campuses in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai
student of a senior high school
elite fee-charging independent school in England or Wales (e.g. Eton College)
chemical element
trigonometry
law
scholar
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Tunghai University (in Taichung, Taiwan)
scientific knowledge
Nankai University (Tianjin)
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts)
mechanical wave
theory proposed in 2019 on Chinese social media, centering on the idea of China replacing the United States as the dominant nation in a new world order, drawing an analogy with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty, achieved after the Qing army entered China via the Shanhai Pass 入關|入关[rù guān]
to concentrate on studying hard
to go to school
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
population studies
Zhengzhou University
logic
pedology (soil study)
Hebei University of Science and Technology
scientific principle
interdisciplinary
physicist
differential calculus
senior high school
developmental biology
classical literature
microbiology
student identity card
student
Northwest University
history of literature
synthetic fiber
department of electronics
Beijing Normal University
interdisciplinary
to enter a school or college
mechanics
Platonism
Central Conservatory of Music
pseudoscience
Euclidean geometry
to seek knowledge
neurobiology
pharmacologist
nuclear medicine
scholarship
Yale University
metalinguistic awareness
sexology
astronomical spectroscopy
optical microscope
to learn
surgery
chemist
chemical weapon defense
genetics
mathematical physics
thermodynamic temperature (temperature above absolute zero)
self-study
Beijing Materials University
science and technology
Darwinism
biochemistry
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
ergonomics
scientific management
scientist
learning
Tianjin University
information science
archaeology
psychology
to learn to walk
Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂|福州船政学堂, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
to switch from one major or faculty to another (at a university)
forensics
to suspend schooling
semiotics
Purdue University
methodology
genetics
erudite
University of California
paleoanthropology
Acadia University (Canada)
pharmacokinetics
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou)
studies
lexicography
paleoclimatology
veterinary medicine
Buddhist doctrine
semiochemical
optical instrument
study tirelessly, teach with endless enthusiasm (idiom, from Analects)
medical technologist
electronics
molecular genetics
IEEE
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
divination; divinatory art
chemistry
junior high school
ecologist
student grant
Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars
not ashamed to learn from subordinates (idiom)
journalism
economics (as a field of study)
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
world of science
teaching
eager to study
credit hour (in an academic credit system)
junior or younger female schoolmate
cosmogony
chemotherapy
university of medicine
Guilin Medical University
chemical analysis
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
to deny oneself comforts in order to save money for one's education
Chengdu Sports University
China Scholarship Council (CSC)
to study
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
expert on writing systems
to run a school
differential geometry
cognitive neuropsychology
study of the Confucian classics
Jiangnan University (Jiangsu Province)
honorary doctorate
Frankfurt School
Confucianism
metaphysics
to change schools
(slang) social media post whose purpose is to humblebrag
Anhui University of Technology and Science
family and consumer science
chemical weapon
to follow good examples
course syllabus
to return to school (after an interruption)
radiology
Shaanxi University of Science and Technology
chemical composition
palaeontology
Guiyang Medical University
academic year
master's degree
bachelor's degree
term
courseware
pharmacokinetics
electromagnetism
cryptography
student of theology
to follow suit
honorary degree
appreciation of the finer things in life
earth science
Sichuan University
Chinese Academy of Science
chemical colorimetry
baby walker
humanities
The path of learning can never be smooth.
academism (art)
neurology
Nobel Prize in Physics
end of school
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[dèng xiǎo píng] introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化[sì ge xiàn dài huà])
Middlebury College, private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont
archaeologist
Study Times, journal of the Central Party School 中央黨校|中央党校[zhōng yāng dǎng xiào]
University of the Philippines
aerodynamics
to quit school
Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
medicine
Central University for Nationalities
China Petrol and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA)
Waseda University (private university in Tokyo)
to study at the same school
University of Leiden
apprentice
thermodynamics
school age
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Xiamen University
school of engineering
a self-made genius
petrology
computer science
epidemiology
sinology
future studies
crystallography
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (1966-), Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (2014-)
folklore
student union
University of International Relations, Beijing, established in 1949
chronometry
algebraic geometry
mineralogy
cosmology
tuition fee
perspective (in drawing)
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[shēn bù hài]
accounting
to study for a degree
lexicography
Rice University (Houston, Texas)
Hunan University
(slang) top student; bookworm
chemical warfare agent
to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
(neologism) (slang) study of how to flee from adverse conditions in China by emigrating
Shanghai Second Medical University
to learn (sth); to learn about
(humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom); Pray forgive my ignorance,...
kinematics
psychologist
The Economist (magazine)
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
biotechnology
University of Bonn
projective geometry
chemical bond
medical school
Lanzhou University
London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
bibliography
Sunday School
learning
RWTH Aachen University
military science
NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC)
entomology
Yanjing or Yenching University, Christian university in Beijing founded in 1919
advanced class of primary school
natural science fund
(medicine) gross anatomy
geometry
aviation science
study tirelessly (idiom, from Analects)
medical center
astrology
chemotherapy
University of Oxford
sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn
course credit
pharmacology
vocational high school
Nanjing Post and Communications University
chemical reaction
Chinese Geophysical Society
Western learning
chemical engineering
integral calculus
financial management science
management studies
East China Normal University (ECNU)
hydraulics
the Royal Society (UK scientific academy)
geology
Princeton University
logic
(statistics) Student's t-test
chemicals
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
classmate
historian
Royal Society
South China University of Technology
ecology
phytochemical
Peking University
to drop out of school
fluid dynamics
(coll.) unenthusiastic, mediocre student
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
a climatologist
sea of learning
chemical equation
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
Chinese national culture
Scientific Outlook on Development, a guiding principle for the CCP attributed to Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛[hú jǐn tāo], incorporated into the Constitution of the CCP in 2007
astrophysics
educational background
science
University of Twente
middle school
Bachelor of Laws
vocational high school
chemist
Doctor of Letters
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
shallow study
architectural
Ming or Qing dynasty school
morphology (in biology or linguistics)
specialized middle school
literature
teaching block
pharmacy
erudite and multitalented (idiom); versatile and able
celestial mechanics
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
academy of sciences
see 曼荷蓮學院|曼荷莲学院[màn hé lián xué yuàn]
to pick up (a skill) in a very short time
beginning student
neurologist
vocational high school
China University of Geosciences
photochemistry
Qian Xuesen (1911-2009), Chinese scientist and aeronautical engineer
acoustics
mathematician
National Taiwan University
University of Michigan
sociolinguistics
molecular medicine
without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent
botany
Columbia University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Beijing Institute of Technology