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工科

gōngkē

engineering; science and engineering disciplines

A student at a desk with gears, a blueprint and a compass
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Characters in this word

工 gōng

Strokes
3
Radical
工 — labor, work
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 工

科 kē

Strokes
9
Radical
禾 — cereal, grain, rice
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 斗 to struggle, to fight, to contend
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 工科教育不能只训练计算能力,也应培养学生对社会后果的判断。 Gōngkē jiàoyù bù néng zhǐ xùnliàn jìsuàn nénglì, yě yīng péiyǎng xuésheng duì shèhuì hòuguǒ de pànduàn. Engineering education should not train only calculation skills; it should also cultivate students' judgement about social consequences.
  • 他在大学读的是工科,毕业后做了工程师。 Tā zài dàxué dú de shì gōngkē, bìyè hòu zuò le gōngchéngshī. He studied engineering at university and became an engineer after graduating.
  • 工科的同学做实验的时间特别多。 Gōngkē de tóngxué zuò shíyàn de shíjiān tèbié duō. Engineering students spend an especially large amount of time on experiments.

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