大 方 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea 学 者 xué zhě scholar 学 家 xué jiā scholar 书 生 shū shēng scholar / intellectual / egghead 院 士 yuàn shì scholar / academician / fellow (of an academy) 学 子 xué zǐ (literary) student / scholar 文 人 wén rén scholar / literati 秀 才 xiù cai a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical) / scholar / skillful writer / fine talent 读 书 人 dú shū rén scholar / intellectual 学 人 xué rén scholar / learned person 文 士 wén shì literati / scholar 士 人 shì rén scholar 士 member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker 儒 scholar / Confucian 士 子 shì zǐ official / scholar (old) 才 子 cái zǐ gifted scholar 宗 师 zōng shī great scholar respected for learning and integrity 名 士 míng shì famous scholar / worthy / celebrity, esp. distinguished literary person having no official post 士 大 夫 shì dà fū scholar officials 王 小 波 Wáng Xiǎo bō Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997), scholar and novelist 儒 生 rú shēng Confucian scholar (old) 雅 士 yǎ shì elegant scholar 王 国 维 Wáng Guó wéi Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar 才 子 佳 人 cái zǐ jiā rén gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / pair of ideal lovers 乡 绅 xiāng shēn a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire 诸 生 zhū shēng Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards 刘 向 Liú Xiàng Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author 郑 玄 Zhèng Xuán Zheng Xuan (127-200), late Han scholar 白 面 书 生 bái miàn shū shēng lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom) / young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears 汉 学 家 hàn xué jiā sinologist / scholar of Chinese 魏 源 Wèi Yuán Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar 王 夫 之 Wáng Fū zhī Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition 周 敦 颐 Zhōu Dūn yí Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar 张 岱 Zhāng Dài Zhang Dai (1597-c. 1684), late Ming scholar 槐 Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree 佳 人 才 子 jiā rén cái zǐ beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / pair of ideal lovers 博 士 买 驴 bó shì mǎi lu:2 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom) / fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point / idiom mocking scholastic pomposity 文 武 双 全 wén wǔ shuāng quán well versed in letters and military technology (idiom) / fine scholar and soldier / master of pen and sword 龙 驹 凤 雏 lóng jū fèng chú brilliant young man / talented young scholar 生 员 shēng yuán scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times) 陈 仁 锡 Chén Rén xī Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author 阿 什 拉 维 A1 shén lā wéi surname Ashrawi / Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (1946-), Palestinian scholar and political activist 于 丹 Yú Dān Yu Dan (1965-), female scholar, writer, educator and TV presenter 儒 士 Rú shì a Confucian scholar 司 马 谈 Sī mǎ Tán Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] 太 极 图 说 Tài jí Tú shuō philosophical book by Song dynasty scholar Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤|周敦颐[Zhou1 Dun1 yi2], starting from an interpretation of the Book of Changes 宿 儒 sù rú experienced scholar / old expert in the field 张 溥 Zhāng Pǔ Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社|复社[fu4 she4] cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记[wu3 ren2 mu4 bei1 ji4] 后 学 hòu xué junior scholar or pupil in imperial China 措 大 cuò dà worthless scholar / useless wretch 扬 雄 Yáng Xióng Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言[Fang1 yan2] 文 弱 书 生 wén ruò shū shēng (idiom) frail scholar 李 昉 Lǐ Fǎng Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history 李 翱 Lǐ Aó Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] in promoting classical writing 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4] 李 肇 Lǐ Zhào Li Zhao (c. 800), Tang dynasty scholar and official 梅 里 美 Méi lǐ měi Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera 杨 守 仁 Yáng Shǒu rén Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar 泰 西 大 儒 Tài xī dà rú Great European Scholar (honorific title of Matteo Ricci) 王 叔 文 Wáng Shū wén 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[Yong3 zhen1 Ge2 xin1] of 805 王 岱 舆 Wáng Dài yú Wang Daiyu (1584-1670), Hui Islamic scholar of the Ming-Qing transition 王 肃 Wáng Sù Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts 理 学 家 lǐ xué jiā scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[Li3 xue2] 甘 巴 里 Gān bā lǐ Professor Ibrahim Gambari (1944-), Nigerian scholar and diplomat, ambassador to UN 1990-1999, UN envoy to Burma from 2007 皮 特 拉 克 Pí tè lā kè Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonnets 砚 兄 砚 弟 yàn xiōng yàn dì lit. older scholar and younger scholar / close friends (idiom) 程 颐 Chéng Yí Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar 程 颢 Chéng Hào Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar 章 太 炎 Zhāng Tài yán Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution 章 炳 麟 Zhāng Bǐng lín Zhang Taiyan 章太炎 / (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution 扎 马 剌 丁 Zā mǎ lá dīng Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 / from c. 1260 虞 应 龙 Yú Yìng lóng 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 邵 雍 Shào Yōng Shao Yong (1011-1077), Northern Song poet and Rationalist scholar 理學家|理学家 阿 旺 曲 培 A1 wàng Qū péi Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US 黄 宗 羲 Huáng Zōng xī Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition 吕 洞 宾 Lu:3 Dòng bīn Lü / Dongbin (796-), Tang Dynasty scholar, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1] 耕 读 gēng dú to be both a farmer and a scholar / to work the land and also undertake academic studies 正 字 通 Zhèng zì tōng Zhengzitong, Chinese character dictionary with 33,549 entries, edited by Ming scholar Zhang Zilie 張自烈|张自烈[Zhang1 Zi4 lie4] in 17th century 宏 儒 hóng rú learned scholar 张 敞 Zhāng Cháng Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty 张 自 烈 Zhāng Zì liè Zhang Zilie (1597-1673), Ming dynasty scholar, author of Zhengzitong 正字通[Zheng4 zi4 tong1] 陶 宗 仪 Táo Zōng yí Tao Zongyi (c. 1329-1410), Yuan dynasty scholar 孔 颖 达 Kǒng Yǐng dá Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar 孙 山 Sūn Shān Sun Shan, Song Dynasty joker and talented scholar 柯 劭 忞 Kē Shào mín Ke Shaomin (1850-1933), scholar, author of New History of the Yuan Dynasty 新元史[Xin1 Yuan2 shi3] 张 敞 Zhāng Chǎng Zhang Chang, official and scholar of the Western Han dynasty
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