Chinese symbol for “sociology”
社会学
shè huì xué
Traditional: 社會學
sociology
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sociology is 社会学 (shè huì xué), defined as: sociology.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 社会学.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 社会 (社會) | shè huì | society |
| 社区 (社區) | shè qū | community; neighborhood |
| 社会主义 (社會主義) | shè huì zhǔ yì | socialism |
| 社交 | shè jiāo | social interaction |
| 出版社 | chū bǎn shè | publishing house |
| 社团 (社團) | shè tuán | association; society |
| 不会 (不會) | bù huì | improbable; unlikely |
| 会议 (會議) | huì yì | meeting; conference |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sociology”.
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.