Chinese symbol for “eugenics”
优生学
yōu shēng xué
Traditional: 優生學
eugenics
The closest CC-CEDICT match for eugenics is 优生学 (yōu shēng xué), defined as: eugenics.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “eugenics”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 优生 (優生) | yōu shēng | outstanding student; to give birth to healthy babies (typically involving prenatal screening and the abortion of offspring with a severe abnormality) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 优生学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 优秀 (優秀) | yōu xiù | outstanding; excellent |
| 优势 (優勢) | yōu shì | superiority; dominance |
| 优惠 (優惠) | yōu huì | privilege; favorable (terms) |
| 优先 (優先) | yōu xiān | to have priority; to take precedence |
| 优质 (優質) | yōu zhì | excellent quality |
| 优化 (優化) | yōu huà | to optimize; (corporate euphemism) to lay off staff |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “eugenics”.
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.