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科学

kē xué 1–2

science; scientific knowledge; scientific; rational

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
科 · 学
Syllables
2
kē xué
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,299

Part of speech: n,a,ad

Character by character

  • 科kē9 strokesHSK 2section, department, science
  • 学xué8 strokesHSK 1 traditional 學learning, knowledge; school

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

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.

  • 他的方法不科学。

    Tā de fāng fǎ bù kē xué

    His methods are not scientific.

  • 我完全不是科学家。

    Wǒ wán quán bù shì kē xué jiā

    I am not a scientist at all.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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