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Chinese symbol for “scientific”

科学
kē xué
Traditional: 科學
science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational

The closest CC-CEDICT match for scientific is 科学 (kē xué), defined as: science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational; 门 (mén),个 (gè),种 (zhǒng).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

科 kē
section, department; field, branch; science
radical 115 ⽲ · 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 科学.

WordPinyinMeaning
科技kē jìscience and technology
科学家 (科學家)kē xué jiāscientist
学科 (學科)xué kēsubject; branch of learning
百科bǎi kēuniversal; encyclopedic
科研kē yán(scientific) research
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
学校 (學校)xué xiàoschool; measure word: 所 (suǒ)

See also: Japanese symbol for “scientific”.

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.

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