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Chinese symbol for “pedagogy”

教育学
jiào yù xué
Traditional: 教育學
pedagogy

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pedagogy is 教育学 (jiào yù xué), defined as: pedagogy.

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Characters and stroke order

教 jiào
school, education
radical 66 ⽁ · 11 strokes
育 yù
to produce, to give birth to; to educate
radical 130 ⾁ · 8 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “pedagogy”

WordPinyinMeaning
训育 (訓育)xùn yùpedagogy; to instruct and guide
教学法 (教學法)jiào xué fǎteaching method; pedagogy
训迪 (訓迪)xùn díguidance; to instruct

Related words

Other words that share a character with 教育学.

WordPinyinMeaning
教育jiào yùto educate; to teach
教师 (教師)jiào shīteacher; 个 (gè)
宗教zōng jiàoreligion
教授jiāo shòuto teach (a subject)
教学 (教學)jiāo xuéto teach
体育 (體育)tǐ yùsports; physical education
发育 (發育)fā yùto develop; to mature
培育péi yùto train; to breed
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “pedagogy”.

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.