Chinese symbol for “scholarly”
儒雅
rú yǎ
scholarly; refined; cultured; courteous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scholarly is 儒雅 (rú yǎ), defined as: scholarly; refined; cultured; courteous.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “scholarly”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饱学 (飽學) | bǎo xué | learned; erudite |
| 有学问 (有學問) | yǒu xué wèn | (of a person) learned; erudite; scholarly; (of a topic, practice or domain) to involve a body of deep, specialized knowledge; to require expertise |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 儒雅.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 侏儒 | zhū rú | person with dwarfism; dwarf |
| 儒生 | rú shēng | Confucian scholar (old) |
| 犬儒 | quǎn rú | cynic |
| 犬儒主义 (犬儒主義) | quǎn rú zhǔ yì | cynicism |
| 焚书坑儒 (焚書坑儒) | fén shū kēng rú | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 (Qín Shǐ huáng)) |
| 优雅 (優雅) | yōu yǎ | grace; graceful |
| 高雅 | gāo yǎ | dainty; elegance |
| 典雅 | diǎn yǎ | refined; elegant |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scholarly”.
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.