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Definition
- bachelor
- honorific
- first class military rank
- specialist worker
- member of the senior ministerial class (old)
- scholar (old)
- radical (Kang Xi 33)
Compounds (26)
will; aspiration; ideal; ambition; to keep in mind; to record; to write a footnote; sign; mark
to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 将
nona; component (phonetic); ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; ninth in order; letter "I" or roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 345°
Related words (148)
warrant officer; petty officer; noncommissioned officer (NCO); Japanese military officer
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
member of religious order; penitent; frater; translation of French agregé (holder of teaching certificate)
famous scholar; worthy; celebrity, esp. distinguished literary person having no official post
(old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿试)
rider; horseman; cavalryman; knight (i.e. European nobility); (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
title of the temporary position in the Hanlin Academy, conferred to meritorious candidates until the next examination
Idioms (7)
(lit.) the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point; idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
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