Chinese symbol for “paleontologist”
古生物学家
gǔ shēng wù xué jiā
Traditional: 古生物學家
paleontologist; paleobiologist
The closest CC-CEDICT match for paleontologist is 古生物学家 (gǔ shēng wù xué jiā), defined as: paleontologist; paleobiologist.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 古生物学家.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古代 | gǔ dài | ancient times |
| 古老 | gǔ lǎo | ancient; old |
| 古典 | gǔ diǎn | classical |
| 考古 | kǎo gǔ | archaeology; to engage in archaeological studies |
| 古城 | gǔ chéng | ancient city |
| 古怪 | gǔ guài | strange; weird |
| 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 |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
See also: Japanese symbol for “paleontologist”.
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.