Chinese symbol for “lecture”
讲授
jiǎng shòu
Traditional: 講授
to lecture; to teach
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lecture is 讲授 (jiǎng shòu), defined as: to lecture; to teach.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lecture”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讲学 (講學) | jiǎng xué | to lecture (on branch of learning) |
| 讲演 (講演) | jiǎng yǎn | to lecture; to speak publicly |
| 讲习 (講習) | jiǎng xí | to lecture; to instruct |
| 报告 (報告) | bào gào | to inform; to report |
| 讲 (講) | jiǎng | to speak; to explain |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 讲授.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讲话 (講話) | jiǎng huà | a speech; to speak |
| 演讲 (演講) | yǎn jiǎng | to give a lecture; to make a speech |
| 讲述 (講述) | jiǎng shù | to talk about; to narrate; to give an account |
| 讲座 (講座) | jiǎng zuò | course of lectures; lecture series; chair (academic position) |
| 来讲 (來講) | lái jiǎng | as to; considering |
| 讲究 (講究) | jiǎng jiu | to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality |
| 教授 | jiāo shòu | to teach (a subject) |
| 授权 (授權) | shòu quán | to authorize |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lecture”.
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.