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Chinese symbol for “journalism”

新闻学
xīn wén xué
Traditional: 新聞學
journalism

The closest CC-CEDICT match for journalism is 新闻学 (xīn wén xué), defined as: journalism.

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Characters and stroke order

新 xīn
new, recent, fresh, modern
radical 69 ⽄ · 13 strokes
闻 wén
news; to hear, to smell; to make known
radical 169 ⾨ · 9 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 新闻学.

WordPinyinMeaning
新闻 (新聞)xīn wénnews; 条 (tiáo)
重新chóng xīnagain; once more; re-
创新 (創新)chuàng xīnto bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
更新gēng xīnto replace the old with new; to renew
最新zuì xīnlatest; newest
新型xīn xíngnew type; new kind
丑闻 (醜聞)chǒu wénscandal
闻名 (聞名)wén míngwell-known; famous
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “journalism”.

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.