"Scholar" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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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 cultivated individual / 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 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
儒 rú scholar / Confucian
士子 shì zǐ official / scholar (old)
才子 cái zǐ gifted scholar
增生 zēng shēng (medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员[zeng1guang3 sheng1yuan2]) 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
宗师 zōng shī great scholar respected for learning and integrity
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 lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
范仲淹 Fàn Zhòng yān Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
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 huái Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
佳人才子 jiā rén cái zǐ lit. beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / fig. 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 Ming dynasty scholar (1602-1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 復社|复社[Fu4she4] cultural renewal movement, author of Five Men’s Tombstone Inscription 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记[Wu3 Ren2 Mu4bei1ji4]
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]
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
诗礼 Shī Lǐ the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1jing1] and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3ji4])
邵雍 Shào Yōng Shao Yong (1011-1077), Northern Song poet and Rationalist scholar 理學家|理学家
钱钟书 Qián Zhōng shū Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城[Wei2cheng2]
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
孔乙己 Kǒng Yǐ jǐ Kong Yiji, protagonist of a short story of the same name by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] depicting the life of a poor, unsuccessful scholar who clings to his Confucian ideals despite his dismal circumstances
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
博士买驴 bó shì - mǎi lu:2 (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
寒士 hán shì (old) impoverished scholar
琴棋书画 qín - qí - shū - huà (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting) / (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
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