科学家

Character by character

• 科kē9 strokesHSK 2section, department, science
• 学xué8 strokesHSK 1 traditional 學learning, knowledge; school
• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family

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Example sentences

• 他想成为科学家。

  Tā xiǎng chéng wéi kē xué jiā

  He wants to be a scientist in the future.

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• 我完全不是科学家。

  Wǒ wán quán bù shì kē xué jiā

  I am not a scientist at all.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 科学家. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 家jiāHSK 1

  home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 学校xué xiàoHSK 1

  school

• 学xuéHSK 1

  to learn; to study; to imitate; science; -ology

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 学生xué shengHSK 1

  student; schoolchild

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 学习xué xíHSK 1

  to learn; to study

• 大学dà xuéHSK 1

  university; college

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 科学kē xuéHSK 2

  science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational

• 科kēHSK 2

  branch of study; administrative section; division; field; branch; stage directions; family (taxonomy); rules; laws; to mete out (punishment); to levy (taxes etc); to fine sb

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 同学tóng xuéHSK 1

  to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 学会xué huìHSK 6

  to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association

• 科技kē jìHSK 3

  science and technology

• 学院xué yuànHSK 1

  college; educational institute; school; faculty

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)

• 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2

  head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan