Chinese

科學

kēxué
science
  • TOCFL 5
  • 科学

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Origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 科学.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • borrowedJapanese科学
  • characterChinese科 “sort; class; kind”
    • soundChinese禾 “grain; cereal”
    • meaningChinese斗 “a dipper or cup-like object, used in ancient China as a wine vessel”
  • characterChinese學 “to comprehend; to realise; to understand”
    • soundChinese爻 “a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines; a hexagram of the I Ching”
      • componentChinese乂 “original form of 刈 (yì, “to weed; to mow”)”
    • soundChinese六 “six”

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