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Chinese symbol for “zoology”

动物学
dòng wù xué
Traditional: 動物學
zoological; zoology

The closest CC-CEDICT match for zoology is 动物学 (dòng wù xué), defined as: zoological; zoology.

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Characters and stroke order

动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes
物 wù
thing, substance, matter; creature
radical 93 ⽜ · 8 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 动物学.

WordPinyinMeaning
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
行动 (行動)xíng dòngoperation; action
动物 (動物)dòng wùanimal
推动 (推動)tuī dòngto push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
劳动 (勞動)láo dòngwork; toil
人物rén wùperson; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc)
物质 (物質)wù zhìmatter; substance
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “zoology”.

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.