Chinese symbol for “faculty”
学院
xué yuàn
Traditional: 學院
college; educational institute; school; faculty
The closest CC-CEDICT match for faculty is 学院 (xué yuàn), defined as: college; educational institute; school; faculty; measure word: 所 (suǒ).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “faculty”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 系 | xì | system; department |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 学院.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学习 (學習) | xué xí | to learn; to study |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
| 医院 (醫院) | yī yuàn | hospital; measure word: 所 (suǒ), 家 (jiā), 座 (zuò) |
| 法院 | fǎ yuàn | court of law; court |
| 院长 (院長) | yuàn zhǎng | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院 (yuàn); chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of Chi |
See also: Japanese symbol for “faculty”.
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.