Chinese symbol for “crackpot”

民科

mín kē

pseudoscientist; crank; crackpot (abbr. for 民間科學家|民间科学家)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crackpot is 民科 (mín kē), defined as: pseudoscientist; crank; crackpot (abbr. for 民間科學家|民间科学家).

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Characters and stroke order

民 mín

citizens, subjects; a nation's people

radical 83 ⽒ · 5 strokes

科 kē

section, department; field, branch; science

radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 民科.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人民	rén mín	the people
民主	mín zhǔ	democracy; democratic
民族	mín zú	nationality; ethnic group
居民	jū mín	resident; inhabitant
公民	gōng mín	citizen
农民 (農民)	nóng mín	peasant; farmer
科技	kē jì	science and technology
科学 (科學)	kē xué	science; scientific knowledge

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.