Chinese symbol for “historiography”
史学
shǐ xué
Traditional: 史學
historiography
The closest CC-CEDICT match for historiography is 史学 (shǐ xué), defined as: historiography.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 史学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 历史 (歷史) | lì shǐ | history; 门 (mén),段 (duàn) |
| 史上 | shǐ shàng | in history |
| 史料 | shǐ liào | historical material or data |
| 历史性 (歷史性) | lì shǐ xìng | historic |
| 有史以来 (有史以來) | yǒu shǐ yǐ lái | since the beginning of history |
| 史诗 (史詩) | shǐ shī | an epic; poetic saga |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “historiography”.
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.