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Chinese symbol for “acoustics”

声学
shēng xué
Traditional: 聲學
acoustics

The closest CC-CEDICT match for acoustics is 声学 (shēng xué), defined as: acoustics.

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Characters and stroke order

声 shēng
sound, noise; voice, tone, music
radical 33 ⼠ · 7 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “acoustics”

WordPinyinMeaning
音响 (音響)yīn xiǎngsound; acoustics; audio; hi-fi system; stereo sound system (abbr. for 组合音响 (zǔ hé yīn xiǎng))

Related words

Other words that share a character with 声学.

WordPinyinMeaning
声音 (聲音)shēng yīnsound; voice
声明 (聲明)shēng míngto state; to declare
声称 (聲稱)shēng chēngto claim; to state
大声 (大聲)dà shēngloud voice; in a loud voice
一声 (一聲)yī shēngfirst tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
声援 (聲援)shēng yuánto support (a cause)
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)

See also: Japanese symbol for “acoustics”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.