Chinese symbol for “scientist”
科学家
kē xué jiā
Traditional: 科學家
scientist
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scientist is 科学家 (kē xué jiā), defined as: scientist.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 科学家.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
| 学科 (學科) | xué kē | subject; branch of learning |
| 百科 | bǎi kē | universal; encyclopedic |
| 科研 | kē yán | (scientific) research |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 学校 (學校) | xué xiào | school; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scientist”.
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.