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Chinese symbol for “trigonometry”

三角学
sān jiǎo xué
Traditional: 三角學
trigonometry

The closest CC-CEDICT match for trigonometry is 三角学 (sān jiǎo xué), defined as: trigonometry.

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Characters and stroke order

三 sān
three
radical 1 ⼀ · 3 strokes
角 jiǎo
angle, corner; horn, horn-shaped
radical 148 ⾓ · 7 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “trigonometry”

WordPinyinMeaning
三角法sān jiǎo fǎtrigonometry (math.)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 三角学.

WordPinyinMeaning
三星sān xīngthree major stars of the Three Stars 参宿 (Shēn xiù) Chinese constellation; the belt of Orion
三次sān cìthird; three times
三级 (三級)sān jígrade 3; third class
十三shí sānthirteen; 13
三分sān fēnsomewhat; to some degree
第三方dì sān fāngthird party
角色jué sèrole; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4]
角度jiǎo dùangle; (fig.) point of view
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “trigonometry”.

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.